John has been a local oil painter for over 30 years, moving to the Tri-Lakes area from Chicago in 1998. He was formally educated as a landscape architect and horticulturalist at the University of Connecticut, his birth state. John also served in the U.S. Navy for 21 years of active duty and reserve service.

John is well known in the community as a painting instructor in Colorado Springs for a decade at the Senior Center and here in the Tri-Lakes area, offering private instruction in his home studio in Woodmoor. He has also taught classes and workshops in various other local venues.