40" x 72" Acrylic on Canvas 2024

"In search of a visual language with which to tell tall tales of wildness and wonder, I have found myself increasingly motivated subjectively by the whimsical and enchanting images that captured my imagination, throughout my life, in the pages of children's books. Equally so, I have a growing ardor for the formal challenge of representing the raw experience of a place with colour, composition and form. These motivations have driven my paintings down a path toward a new story, solemn and inspired, of a renewed relationship with the sublimity of nature.” (John)

John F. Ross (b. 1984, Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian painter creating contemporary colourist works charged with personal, sociopolitical and environmental narratives. A graduate of Studio Art from York University, John has been exhibiting his work since 2006 in Canada and can be found in private and public collections across Canada and Europe. John lives and works in Calgary