John T. Eiseman
About the Artist
Based in: Hebron, Maryland
Website: https://johnteiseman.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnteiseman/
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 national exhibitions. John’s work has been accepted into the national exhibitions of the Oil Painters of America, American Impressionist Society and the National Oil and Acrylic Painter’s Society. In the June 2022 and the July 2024 Plein Air Salon Magazine - John was awarded the "best Plein Air Landscape". Modern Impressionist Magazine awarded John 3rd place overall national for January 2025. He is a member of the prestigious Washington Society of Landscape Painters. John also writes narratives of his plein air adventures and has been published in Plein Air Magazine. John’s work is represented by The Troika Gallery in Easton, Md, and The Main Street Gallery in Annapolis, Md. A complete list of John’s exhibitions, awards and representations can be found on his website: www.johnteiseman.com
Artist's Statement
John’s work encompasses several genres: Plein Air and studio landscapes, still life interiors, 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 (whether it be a farmhouse, tree, cloud, or figure) 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 are not a recording of facts seen. It is the process of interpreting a fleeting muse. John considers himself to be an “American Impressionist” with “caveats”.