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Click on a photo for larger view John Eells
John paints in a variety of styles in both oils and acrylics. His subject matter runs from the mythic and abstract to the realistic and representational. He is obviously unwilling to be tied down to any particular means of expression. Let‚'s let John tell you about his painting in his own words: So just what am I trying to accomplish in my artwork? What am I getting at? It is exactly this: I am attempting to provide the viewer with an opportunity to experience some feeling, some emotion. I may attempt to do this through the use of color and composition. Or it may be through the way I treat my subject matter. Because each viewer brings his or her individual soul to the art experience, I cannot predict to what extent I will succeed. Perhaps some one painting will succeed in touching the feelings of one person and not another. I make no demands on the viewer as to what to feel. The viewer participates in the creation of each work by involving his or her own sensations in the encounter. One may feel that she or he is in the presence of something beautiful, or something strange or something indescribable. There is no requirement that he or she feel what I felt as I was creating the painting. The viewer is also free to feel nothing. How could it be otherwise? But perhaps feeling nothing is also feeling something.
Please feel free. ‚ Sincerely, John Eells |
John Eells has been painting since before Oil Painting 101
at Colgate University in New York State. His painting
activity has intensified over the last seven years to become
his main life activity. Underway he has taken drawing,
painting and sculpture courses from private teachers,
colleges and art schools and has studied under such noted
artists as James Russell, Christine Cohen, Patricia Osborne,
Bob Burridge and Marsha Connell.