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About New Collection
John Haskins was born in Bermondsey, London. After graduating from art college
with his City and Guilds Diploma in illustration, he joined industry,specialising in
illustrating and depicting technical products of such industrial giants as British
Aerospace, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Rolls and NASA. He rose to the position of
Chief Illustrator and eventually ran his own publishing company, but he gave up this
security to devote his full attention to his first love of landscape painting.
Working from his countryside home and studio, his paintings evoke an atmosphere of nostalgic charm for seasonal rural activity, drawn closely from a life-long attention to detail. These paintings convey spontaneity, gaiety and sheer joie de vivre. They
remind us it is good to be alive, the enjoyment of lazing in a boat, picnics in the
country and digging in the sand. They are artfully composed in the best sense of the
word. A woman peels apples watched by her cat in silent communion. There is a
jumble of apples, flower pots, a carpenters’ bench and saw and objects on a table.
These surround the central figures, whose shadows are cast on a white wall, in a
circular movement. A girl and a boy fish for tiddlers while around them laps with
river with its rippling shadows and streaks of green weed.
Sometimes the eye is led into the middle distance, from a stretch of foreground along
a shaded path or snow-covered road to figures caught in a burst of sunshine in the
middle distance.
This talented artist has become well known and respected by a world wide public as
well as his fellow artists and his work is to be found in many private collections and
galleries worldwide. Apart from over two hundred examples of his work appearing on
greeting card reproductions, he has also produced numerous limited edition prints and
book illustrations.
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