John Weaver
John worked as a graphic artist for thirty years before setting up, Serif Studios, his graphic art studio. As a young man, he was offered a place in a London gallery. The curator gave him six months to finish his portfolio/project which he went back and did while continuing his work as a full-time graphic artist and bringing up three children. At the end of the six months, he decided that his work wasn’t good enough and tore most of it up, and didn’t go back to the gallery.
He returned to graphic art, and continued his art studies, all while raising his children. It wasn’t until after his retirement that he resumed his art projects and took part in numerous local art festivals, always drawing a crowd.
John loved talking about his Spatial composition project. He was a surreal classical artist favoring his unique concept of space beyond earth, outside the solar system. His paintings are classical in composition, and abstract in subject. His great concern was his classical spatial composition with every item in the picture relating to its distance in the real world from the other elements. He would say that they were not a mere cosmic chance but an absolute orientation of every item within the frame and that there is no question that it is crucial to the resolution of his paintings.
