Born in Glasgow, John graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1990 and from The Royal College of Art in 1993, specialising in Printed and Mixed Media textiles. His working practice includes Painting, Printmaking and Textile Design.

His paintings are inspired from observations of urban and domestic life and form a narrative; they are captured moments from actual events and mixed with remembered ones, depicting people in ordinary everyday settings. The daily mundane activities we all do or see. The sometimes ambiguous scenes and the titles encourage the viewer to continue their own narrative.

This narrative approach has also been extended to his practice as a successful and award winning textile designer and he is in the process of creating a collection of narrative based printed textiles for the interiors market.

He has exhibited regularly with London galleries, among others Lena Boyle, Neville Contemporary, Modern Artists Gallery, StART Space, Pryory Art, Cadogan Contemporary, Thompson’s and Macgregor Fine Art, as well as mixed exhibitions in Glasgow, Oxford, Bristol, Edinburgh Miami and New York.

His work is also included in The Fleming- Wyfold Art Foundation,London as well as numerous private collections.

John has also worked as a Lecturer, teaching on BA Textile Design courses at Norwich University of The Arts,University of Derby and De Montfort University, creating and delivering a range of creative drawing and materials based workshops for design students across Print,Knit,Weave and Mixed Media Textiles.