about me
Solo Exhibitions
New Vic Theatre
Newcastle u Lyme 2013
Brampton Museum and Art Gallery
Newcastle u Lyme 2019
Mixed exhibitions
Affordable Art Fair
Battersea & Hampstead
New Light Exhibition 2017-2018
Mall Galleries
London Lynn Painter-Stainers Exhibition, RBA, New English Art Club,ROI
RWA Open
Bristol
RBSA Open all media
Birmingham
RA Summer Show
MAFA
Manchester and Bury
Wirral Society of Arts
Frequent exhibitor and prize winner at various Open Competitions
Jackson’s Open Painting Prize 2018
Still Life winner
Wirral Society of Arts
Prize winner 2017,2018, 2019
Chester Open
1st Prize 2015, 2nd Prize 2017
Derby City Open
Inc. 1st Prize 2012
Staffordshire Open
Inc. 1st Prize 2002
Three Counties Open, Keele University
Inc. 1st Prize 2000, 2nd Prize 2012, 2017
Byard Art
Cambridge
Art Studio Gallery
Newcastle u Lyme
King Street Gallery
Newcastle under Lyme
Jackson’s Open Painting Prize 2018
in brief
Born 1950
1971-74 Dip.AD Fine Art, North Staffs Polytechnic
1974-75 MA Printmaking, Chelsea School of Art
1975-76 ATD, Liverpool Polytechnic
1976-2009 Art teacher, High schools in Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire
The overarching theme of my painting is the built environment in various forms – buildings, urban views, parks and managed landscape.
My recent work is still life informed by the built environment. I construct and then paint from objects that are influenced by architectural models, model railway scenery or the spontaneously arranged structures a child might put together as a stage for play. These staged environments use readily available materials to fashion a setting that allows imagination and speculation to flow.
Further reading
The Jackdaw magazine March/April 2018
John Whitehill Easel Words, a copy can be found here
Jacksons art blog Nov 2018
John Whitehill - contemplating structure, still life and narrative, here
