"Space has become more and more important to me, with all those things––conversation, love, candlelight, music, white curtains––that charge a room, à la Gerard Manley Hopkins, with feeling, barb and meaning."  John's work arises from incessant experimentation. Painting in particular is a generator of fresh habits and the quiet unmooring of old rules between objects, furnishings and, yes, spaces themselves, where old seeings crack into unexpected enthusiasms.