John Lendis is an internationally collected artist born in Nottingham in 1950. John initially studied textile design at Nottingham University, after which time he moved to Sydney, Australia where is work is still exhibited and collected today. He then went on to complete a BA and MA in Fine Art at the University of Tasmania.
Having moved back to the UK some 15 years ago, his paintings blend the wealth of richness from his various life experiences, allowing the viewer to take journeys between what it real and what is imagined. Today, John is based in the Cotswolds.
Recurring themes in John’s work include journeys, fantasy and folklore, indecision, our relationship with the natural world as well as our interior and exterior selves. His paintings blend loose and urgent brushwork with exquisite attention to detail, yielding many questions and thus a lifetime of interest in each piece. His works’ form emotional connections with their owners instantly through the almost dream-like quality of John’s scenes.
