John Lennard s a contemporary landscape painter whose love of art and nature is vividly expressed in is colourful canvases. Painting in the traditional medium of oils, the work captures the effects colour in sunlight and shadow.
John resides in the Haliburton Highlands. The paintings reflect a direct response to nature and the environment. They intensify the subject and follow the seasons with a strong rich treatment which evokes the remembered sensations of season , place and time. The bold colour and strong design enables the viewers to look into the shadows and see light and colour.
The paintings emphasize colour, light, shadow and pattern and makes one feel, as well as see what was experienced at that place and time.