about

John Palmer

John Palmer was born in 1974 in Houston and is a fifth-generation Texan. John studied art at Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy as well as in Cadaques, Spain (former home of Salvador Dali) near Barcelona. He spent the summer of 2004 working with Master Painter Philip Rudinov Jacobson in the Austrian Alps, just outside of Vienna, studied printmaking in Skopelos, Greece, and also studied printmaking techniques with Linda Goodman.

John describes his work in more emotional than technical terms. He sees his art as free form, full of energy, life and movement. He sees it as Escapism, which is the title of a book about his work. He paints with many vibrant hues, always experimenting with bold colors. He continues to grow, realizing that his paintings are ever changing and always evolving, just as he is.

John’s preferred medium is a mix including oils, pastels, graphite and oil sticks. He also likes to paint in the old masters technique that involves the use of egg tempera that actually absorbs the light.

Palmer's work has been featured in a number of places, publications and homes around the country. Feature articles have appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Inside Houston, The Voice, Outsmart and Fox News. He was selected as the featured Artist of The Periwinkle Foundation's "Making a Mark", in partnership with Texas Children's Hospital. John worked with children, most of whom have life-threatening illnesses, who wish to enrich their lives with their talents.

John is pure energy, and it's when that energy is translated onto canvas the real magic occurs. John uses lines and color to describe the indescribable, and perhaps to escape the inescapable. The work is sometimes fractured and segmented, but still retains a certain wholeness and balance. His paintings are bold, expressive and dramatic. Subtlety is not part of John's repertoire.