John Boys Drawbridge MBE (27 December 1930 – 24 July 2005) was a New Zealand artist, muralist and printmaker.

[6] Three years later in 1960 Drawbridge married the sculptor Tanya Ashken who was also a student at the Central School of Arts and together they moved to Paris[7] so he could study under SM.

[9] Drawbridge, along with Ashken, returned to New Zealand at the end of 1963[10] and in 1964 he was appointed as a tutor in printmaking at the Wellington Polytech School of Design (now Massey University, College of Creative Arts) and taught there for 25 years.

He lived at Island Bay in Wellington for over 40 years[11] with his artist wife Tanya Ashken; they had two sons, Tony and Cameron.

[19] 1990 Creates stained glass windows and stations of the cross for the Home of Compassion chapel designed by Structon Group.

[22] The 45 watercolour and pastel drawings and Drawbridge's storyboard survived and are now held in the Turnbull Library in Wellington.