John sumner
First and foremost, I am a sculptor.
However, my origins as an artist are born from a host of odd jobs ending with a 15 year career in the Entertainment Industry as a Production Designer/Art Director with a focus on stop-motion animation. (You can find examples of my past work in the Entertainment Design section of my website.)
As of 2023, I have built up a substantial body of work and I am currently exhibiting artwork in Galleries, Shows and Studios. I have an eclectic collection that matches my curiosity for life, so you will often see a wide range of styles in my work.
Philosophy as a Mission Statement:
Art. It's a beautiful evolution of growth, development and storytelling through Creation. My story leans towards a simple nature. I am drawn to experiences as influence, with a desire to create art that is both undefinable and irresistible.
To Draw... The crunch of dirt, stone and wood under my boot step on a hiking trail is a gestural pen stroke representing a waterfall in my sketchbook.
To Paint... Every wind whipped and sunburnt mile driven across the country is a beat up old truck is an ethereal cloud in my oil painting of the sunrise sky.
To Sculpt... Each adventure taken to a different country that offers up food and flavors never tasted before is a mass of tool marks defining the human form in modeled clay.
As such, one finds a vast diversity to my portfolio. Artwork that is born from the unknown.
That thrilling prospect of the soul made tangible. At my core, this is the defining trait of who I am.