John Morris, a Charlotte, NC-based artist, brings a sometimes quiet, often striking soul and energy to paintings and drawings in oils, acrylics, and charcoal that combine traditional processes with contemporary vision. Growing up amongst the mountain beauty of the Roanoke Valley in Virginia, John’s artwork of the past three decades captures mystery and the mystical with subjects including people, land- and seascapes, and beloved birds, by nods often in style of forebears of the Renaissance and pre-modern age. .

His style inhabits a space of form and representation that touches on both classical realism and romanticist visions. Indeed, bringing both the conscious-real and the dream-real together has long been his goal. Studies with painter Herb Jackson at Davidson College, and subsequent atelier work with artist Tony Griffin in Charlotte and the Studio Incamminati school of classical realism in Philadelphia, fostered this connection between these two types of seeing. Since the early 2000’s he has called Charlotte his home and base of studio operations, and he has exhibited extensively in the Carolinas, where he continues to create both commissioned work and an ever-evolving body of independent artworks.

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