John T. Eiseman
Hebron, MD
John’s work encompasses several genres – Plein Air and studio landscapes, still lifes, and figures: using acrylics, oils, and watercolors. His paintings are surely representational and indeed narrative at times, but the imagery is not about the pictorial. He uses the subject matter (whether it be a farmhouse, tree, cloud, wave, or figure) as elements of design to capture specific natural phenomena, moment in space and time and mood of “event.” John believes that painting is not just the celebration of vision, but rather a quest for experience. In this sense, his paintings and the inherent process is not a recording of facts seen - It is the process of interpreting a fleeting muse. This process is, as a result, in a constant state of emergency. His work is in many private and public collections. John attended the Kansas City Art Institute and the Maryland Institute College of Art – where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. John’s paintings have won numerous awards and have been accepted into many juried exhibitions both regionally and nationally.
Awards
John’s paintings have won numerous awards and have been accepted into many juried exhibitions both regionally and nationally. Just since 2021 John awards include:
Artists’ Choice award and the “Spirit of Maryland” award at the 2022 Harford County Plein Air Festival
,“Best in Show” at Adkins Nature Center (Leon Andrus Award),
“Best in Show” at the Coastal, Virginia Plein Air Festival.
“Artist Choice” at the St. George Island Plein Air Festival
Best “River” painting at the Gloucester, Virginia Arts Festival
2nd place overall at the New Bern Plein Air Festival for both 2021 and 2022
“Spirit of the Adirondacks” award at the 2021 Adirondack Plein Air Festival.
