John Taft

"The landscape has always spoken to me, even from my earliest memories growing up in the country working the fields on my father’s tree nursery in Western NY.  At best, the mundane can become music, even a symphony, the ordinary, beautiful.  Painting for me, is translating to canvas what the eye “hears”, and doing so in a way that considers the lessons of the artists who have come before.”

Trained in design and illustration, first at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, then on scholarship at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, John began to paint five years ago, attending workshops with Jim Wilcox, Scott Christensen, and Quang Ho.  In 2004, he moved to Colorado with his family to pursue painting full time.  In doing so, he left a successful 18 year NYC career in design and art direction in television. 

Recent accomplishments and articles:

Award of Excellence, May 2006