Past Exhibits
John Russell
“Past and Present”
September 19th – October 10th, 2004
John made his career as a house painter despite the fact that, as a young man, he was trained at the California School of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, and the San Francisco School of Fine Arts. While a student, he won the Wallace Kibee Award for a tempera painting he entered in the 
seventy-third annual painting and sculpture exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association. He and his wife Johnnie have been married for 55 years, raised four children and have lived in the Portland area for six and a half years.
Upon retiring eight years ago, John reconnected with his artistic beginnings. While his early work was non-objective and abstract, he now enjoys painting landscape scenes as well as figurative work and still life. John believes that working on his paintings has made him more aware of his surroundings. He now sees things differently. He says that “painting is a spiritual experience that makes me feel closer to God.”
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