John Newsom (born 1970 in Hutchinson, Kansas) is an American painter best known for his thickly layered, gestural paintings of pastoral flora and fauna subject matter.
He completed high school in 1988 at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy located in northern Michigan.
[1] Newsom is best known for combining multiple techniques of formal painting strategies onto large canvases, featuring dynamic spectacles of the natural world.
Evenly toned backgrounds of color are juxtaposed with expressionistic splashes of white oil paint.
[2] In an added surface, Newsom paints recurrent monochromatic geometric shapes such as squares or circles in a hard-edge manner.