John Thomas Eiseman
John has been painting since he was a teenager. John attended the Kansas City Art Institute and the Maryland Institute College of Art – graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1981. John’s paintings have won numerous awards and have been accepted into many exhibitions regionally and nationally. John’s work has recently been accepted into the national juried exhibitions of the Oil Painters of America (OPA), American Impressionist Society (AIS) and the National Oil and Acrylic Painter’s Society (NOAPS). Recently, in the June 2022 Plein Air Salon Magazine – John was awarded the “best Plein Air Landscape”. He is a member of the prestigious, historic Washington Society of Landscape Painters. John also writes narratives of his plein air adventures and has been published in Plein Air Magazine
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Biography
John has been painting since he was a teenager. John attended the Kansas City Art Institute and the Maryland Institute College of Art – graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1981. John’s paintings have won numerous awards and have been accepted into many exhibitions regionally and nationally. Just since 2021, John’s awards include:
The “Best of Harbor Award” at the Paint Annapolis Festival in 2024, The “Best of Beaufort” award at the North Carolina Plein Air Festival in 2024. The Harford, Maryland Plein Air Festival “Best of Show” 2023 and 2022 Artists’ Choice and “Spirit of Maryland” award, “Best in Show” at Adkins Nature Center in 2022, “Best in Show” at the Coastal Virginia Plein Air Festival in 2021, “Artist Choice” at the St. George Island Plein Air Festival in 2021, Best “River” painting in 2021 and best “Nocturne” award in 2022 at the Gloucester Arts Festival, 2nd place at the New Bern (North Carolina) Plein Air Festival for 2021, 2022, “Best of New Bern” in 2023, “Spirit of the Adirondacks” award at the 2021 Adirondack Plein Air Festival. John’s work has recently been accepted into the national juried exhibitions of the Oil Painters of America (OPA), American Impressionist Society (AIS) and the National Oil and Acrylic Painter’s Society (NOAPS). Recently, in the June 2022 Plein Air Salon Magazine – John was awarded the “best Plein Air Landscape”. He is a member of the prestigious, historic Washington Society of Landscape Painters. John also writes narratives of his plein air adventures and has been published in Plein Air Magazine. John is currently represented Main Street Gallery in Annapolis, Md – and the Troika Gallery in Easton, Md.
Artist Statement
John’s work encompasses several genres: Plein Air and studio landscapes, still lifes, and figures: using acrylics, oils, and watercolors. His paintings are surely representational and narrative at times, but the imagery is not about the pictorial. He uses the subject matter as design elements to capture natural phenomena, moment in space and time and mood of event. John believes that painting is not just the celebration of vision, but rather a quest for experience. In this sense, his paintings is not a recording of facts seen. It is the process of interpreting a fleeting muse.