Eduardo Alessandro Studios John Mackie

John Mackie.

John Mackie was born in Glasgow in 1953 and studied at Glasgow School of Art between 1972-76. It was there that he was first introduced to the works of Monet, Renoir and Pissarro whose work still greatly influences his own to this day

After a travelling scholarship in America and Canada, he lived and painted in Italy and France inspired by the landscape and cities around Tuscany, Umbria and Chianti. In France, Paris was of course a source of manypaintings of cafes on the Place du Tetreand the Champs Elysees, but it was in Languedoc in the South of France where John felt his greatest attraction to the cities of Terrasson, Montpeleier, Bezier and Narbonne which still feature prominently in his artistic output today.

John currently lives in Yorkshire and has exhibited widely for over 30 years, including at The Royal Scottish Academy and in the USA, Germany, London, Ireland and elsewhere.