John is a founder of the Guild and recently completed a term as its Chairman. His accuracy in painting aircraft is nearly flawless. He was awarded the Guild of Aviation Artist's Medal in 1983 and was the first member of the Guild to receive the Flight International Trophy for the Best Professional Aviation Artist three times. With countless other professional awards and tributes to his credit John's artwork remains as its own statement of his talent. In addition to numerous private and corporate collections in the U.S. and U.K., the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon displays forty-five of John's original paintings.
Aviation adds to the traditional landscape and seascape a third dimension - the sky.
Nature has given the air a truly awesome beauty. The artist can only strive to capture a visual moment and preserve it as a memory for an airman, or perhaps fire the imagination of someone who has not flown, and give an insight into what is truly another world. Add to this the functional good looks of a flying machine and the painter has a challenge which can outlast a lifetime. John lives with his wife Barbara in the English village of Chesham, the same small town where he grew up and where he first turned his eyes toward the sky.