Today we’d like to introduce you to John Strother.

Hi John, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I grew up in a very artistic environment my Mother is a landscape and portrate painter and is still paintaing today at age 96. My father was a biophysics professer and a pastel and pencil illistrator. Art exposure was always available in our household. My third year in architecture school at Penn State University I started exploring with color layored foam core as a way to study building elevations. After I graduated from collage I continued exploring colored layored compositions as an art form. Over time this exploration has evolved into colored gemetric compositional images. With the help of photoshop this process is still continuing to this day.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
I’m currently 67 years old and I retired from working in the field of Architecture in 2020. Until recently my artwork has always been a part-time endeavor, always below the surface of my priorities. Currently I have been able to spend a good deal of my time on production and development of my artwork, I have started to show and sell more of my work.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
My work has always been prety unique in that its a compination of compsitional (figurative /Theater set design) freehand sketches layored with hand or computer applied color. Some of these studies I then developed into three dimensional relief compositions using multiple textures and materials. The time required to make these stratagraphs was extensive and stunted development of newer images. I currently have been focoused on just two dimensional work allways keeping in the back of my conscious the potential for each image to be transformed into a three dimensional artwork. I have learned over time to allways explor and develop the negative space around the images in a composition, sometimes that space is visually more powerfull than the image itself.

Can you talk to us a bit about the role of luck?
Im thankfull to still have realitivly good health and be able to work on my artwork in whatever form every day. Maybe thats luck Im not sure.

Pricing:

• Hangable canvas prints $20-$40
• T Shirts $25
• Note cards $15
• Coffee Cups $15

Contact Info:

• Website: Strotherstudio.com
• Instagram: John Hayward Strother
• Other: [email protected]