John Down
Intrigued by Natural Phenomena...
John Down is a contemporary Artist based in Halfmoon Bay, BC Canada.
Born in Vancouver in 1958, John Down started exhibiting his art works while still a student. His paintings have been shown in International exhibitions, notably in Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa, Seattle, New York, as well as in Tokyo, Venice and Florence. John’s paintings are represented in private and corporate collections internationally.
Recognized for his unique talent, John Down has been the recipient of the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award and numerous commissions.
John Down is currently located in British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, a forty-minute ferry sailing from Vancouver. He lives in the coastal community of Halfmoon Bay with his partner Joe Guiliano. After 25 years of living in New York City, they moved to a rocky bluff surrounded by five acres of West Coast forest – rock, arbutus, and woodland gardens – overlooking the Salish Sea and Vancouver Island.
Sunshine Coast Art Crawl Presentation (video by Brittany Broderson)
February 2020: John Down exhibits at the International Contemporary Art Gallery 'The Body Language', Venice Italy.
Central to John Down’s artistic process is the use of numerous materials. For instance, in the early nineties, he experimented by blending traditional materials into a contemporary format by introducing calcium carbonate into an aqueous emulsion. Applied in multiple layers, this emulsion adds depth and luminosity to his paintings.
