John Linthurst

I have a Photo Arts degree from Pasadena City College, back when dinosaurs ruled the earth. Later additional work at CSU-Fullerton. Digital age changed a lot for people like me. You could waste a lot while pursuing an idea.  I took a hiatus unknowingly from 30yrs – 50yrs of age pursuing family and business interests. Not certain of the catalyst, but all that changed 180 degrees at age of 50, around 2010, when my daughter was in a severe auto accident. What really matters, if not your unflagging love? And, being spared? So, my thought process entered into a paradigm change and meaning took precedence over ambition. I began entering shows, and had some favorable response. And it’s all been in a state of evolution since.

Per training, my initial entrance into the world of creative production was photography. However, that has its limits and I exhausted them long ago. As an evolution, I began making up my own photographs, meaning NOT a document via camera, but something invented. An assembled reality of parts so to speak. Lots of fun.  As a progression, I took my completed designs and added collage material 'after print', with additional layers of paper, sand, sticks, oils, pen ink stamping etc. Text in pieces has been important to me, and I tend to meld text into the visual to seed a story from the greater imagination. Evoke, or provoke: Make something that moves our emotional needle - and you have succeeded.

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San Diego