John
Duffin is a painter and printmaker whose work is based on the modern
environments of cities and towns, creating dynamic, cinematic images of
contemporary urban life. His unique images of architecture, lighting and
figures have been greatly praised and awarded, recently receiving ‘The Most
Outstanding Print Award’ from Sir Peter Blake. He has a distinctive artistic
voice and has much to say in his work about contemporary life in all of its
manifestations.
Duffin trained as a Draughtsman and Naval Architect in the
shipbuilding industry at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria before studying Fine Art
at Goldsmiths’ College in London - his contemporaries there were many of the
Britart generation. He then studied MA Printmaking at Central St Martins in
London and became a member of The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (RE) and
has exhibited his prints at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition consistently
for the last 20 years.
His work is in the tradition of LS Lowry in Britain and Edward
Hopper in America and like these artists he creates unique views of
contemporary urban life, a combination of his ability as a draughtsman, his
imagination and his personal use of perspective and colour. He makes drawings
and watercolours in front of his chosen subject and takes these sketches back
to his London studio where he creates from them his own imaginative
interpretation of the site, recreating the place anew via his own imagination.
His work is redolent with influences from cinema, graphic novels and the
history of figurative painting, but from this comes a vision that is his alone.
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