John Tomlinson Artist in Drawing & Motion Drawing Video
John is a master drawing artist and painter with a professional practice spanning 37 years.
During the past several years he has combined his drawings with animation in digital video to
create narrative motion drawings with musical compositions. One such work, "small gestures
Modes of Escape", was presented at the DIGit Media Arts Exposition in Narrowsburg, NY, in
August 2006, and at the Black Bear Film Festival in Milford, PA, in October 2006.
(Short Flash excerpts are at top and bottom left)
His work in progress is a motion drawing digital video with spoken words and music entitled
"Endangered".
He has exhibited his paintings and drawings in New York City and throughout the U.S., including at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance in Narrowsburg, NY, and has received reviews in
several publications, including Arts Magazine and The New York Times.
He will have two exhibitions in 2008 and 2009: of his 1980s portrait works at the Brattleboro
Museum in Vermont in December 2008, and of four decades of his drawings at the Alliance Gallery of the DVAA in Narrowsburg, NY., opening June 12, 2009.
Tomlinson received a Fellowship for Visual Artists and Craftspersons grant from the Delaware
Valley Arts Alliance in 2005.
He was professor of drawing in the Fine Arts Department of Parsons the New School for Design
from 1980 to 2001 and has been the Director of the New York Studio Program of the 36 U.S. and
4 Canadian colleges of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design since 1992.
John is a founding member of both the DIGit Media Arts Exposition in Narrowsburg, NY and the
Barryville Area Arts Association. He is also a founding board member of the Upper Delaware
Preservation Coalition (UDPC), an environmental advocacy group whose mission is to protect
and preserve the Upper Delaware River Valley of New York State and Pennsylvania.
John Tomlinson was born and grew up in Boston and has lived in New York since 1961. He has a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Cooper Union School of Art.
To see a Flash slideshow of four decades of his drawings click on this link.
