​John Perkins fine art photography

John Perkins makes art in a variety of modalities that invites us to explore the emergence of perception from abstraction and our emotional responses to it.   His work occupies a fluid niche between painting and photography involving brushwork, camerawork and digital constructions.

 

Inspired by Color Field painters and abstractionists who willed the eye to see beyond the picture, Perkins is concerned with how the act of viewing make us feel.  As viewing transforms to deeper looking he pushes us to notice in our body as much as in our mind.

 

John’s first teacher was his mother, an accomplished ecclesiastical embroideress. Later he studied perceptual psychology,  then briefly at the NS College of Art and Design.  

 

John recently returned to Nova Scotia after a 12 year residency in the acclaimed Mexican arts centre of San Miguel de Allende. His work is in collections in Canada, the USA and Mexico.