John Fisher

John Fisher was born in Coventry in 1938 and educated at Camberwell School of Art. Since graduating he has practised in several media, including sculpture and printmaking, but in recent years has worked mainly in oil on paper and sometimes canvas. Represented by Francis Kyle Gallery since 1986, Fisher has travelled widely in Europe and Asia in pursuit of subjects which satisfy his interest in architecture and landscape, recorded in nine one-man exhibitions: Villages and Valleys of the Ardèche (1988), Provence and Pamphylia (1989), Egypt and Italy (1991), Jordan and Italy (1993), Central Asia (1996), In Mongolia (1998), Writers' rooms (2002), Writers' rooms II (2006) and Writers' rooms III (2008).

John Fisher has been a regular contributor to many of the Gallery's theme exhibitions and special projects, including The Italian Journey: Ten Artists go South in the Footsteps of J W Goethe (1987), Paradise... is here: Painters in Moghul and Rajput India (1989), Mozart's Travels, shown at the Lincoln Centre, New York (1991), The Piero Trail (1994) and The Saxon Shore (Francis Kyle Gallery, 1997 and the King's Lynn Art Centre, 1998). John Fisher was a major participant in The Art of Memory: Contemporary Painters in search of Marcel Proust (2000), the theme exhibition which marked the beginning of his encounters with writer's rooms, Lair of The Leopard: Twenty artists go in search of Lampedusa's Sicily (2005), and Everyone Sang: A view of Siegfried Sassoon and his world by twenty-five painters today (2006).

'Painting in a writer's house', observes John Fisher, 'can have a profound effect. A place closely associated with someone you already know, if only through his writings and reputation, has a resonance that acts strongly upon the imagination, all the more so when one is alone in the house'.

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