John Maizels is the founder of Raw Vision magazine which he created in London in 1989[1] as a forum for the work of self-taught artists, or unknown geniuses, which he felt was overlooked and under-appreciated.
He first discovered outsider art through Roger Cardinal's book of the same name in 1972 and organised many visits to sites and collections in Europe before founding Raw Vision magazine.
[8] Newspaper articles have included Nek Chand's obituary in the Guardian (June 15, 2015)[9] and ‘Why there's more to ‘outsider art’ than mental illness’ in the Daily Telegraph (Dec 30 2021).
[10] Maizels with his wife Maggie curated ‘Love: Error and Eros’ at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore in 1998.
[11] Other curations have included ‘Equal Rights in Creativity’ at the Mexico Gallery in London in 2004, part of a continent wide programme across the EU to present self-taught and outsider art.