JPs Bio

John Presseault was born in Temiscaming, Quebec in 1949. His love of nature stems from the many family outings with his parents Florian and Mary and his two brothers Guy and Raymond. This love can still be seen in the colorful landscapes that he creates today.

He moved to Toronto in the late 60's and now resides in the West end with his loving partner and wife Virginia and their three animals. His art education includes The Famous Artists School, watercolor, wildlife and many other painting classes at local community schools. His formal art training comes from four years at the Ontario College of Art and Design from which he graduated in 2000.

John believes that the best part of his art training has been his years of struggle as a self taught painter and his work en plein air (on site). He has been working seriously at his craft since the mid 80's. One of his favorite spots is High Park in Toronto's west end.

He considers himself a impressionist painter and he believes that his alla prima painting technique has a unique flavor that reflects his youthful way of interpreting the world.

John has spent the last thirty years trying to make his painting technique into a more automatic method more so then a thought out process. He tries to feel the scenes and transposes those sensations onto his canvases.


	JOHN PRESSEAULT a.o.c.a.d.
	John Presseault was born in Temiscaming, Quebec in 1949. His love of nature stems from the many family outings with his parents Florian and Mary and his two brothers Guy and Raymond. This love can still be seen in the colorful landscapes that he creates today. He moved to Toronto in the late 60's and now resides in the West end with his loving partner and wife Virginia and their three animals. His art education includes The Famous Artists School, watercolor, wildlife and many other painting classes at local community schools. His formal art training comes from four years at the Ontario College of Art and Design from which he graduated in 2000. John believes that the best part of his art training has been his years of struggle as a self taught painter and his work en plein air (on site). He has been working seriously at his craft since the mid 80's. One of his favorite spots is High Park in Toronto's west end. He considers himself a impressionist painter and he believes that his alla prima painting technique has a unique flavor that reflects his youthful way of interpreting the world. John has spent the last thirty years trying to make his painting technique into a more automatic method more so then a thought out process. He tries to feel the scenes and transposes those sensations onto his canvases.
	John enjoys choosing his own subject matter while still enjoying the challenges of commissions. He loves painting landscapes, old houses & cottages, schools, portraits, pets and wildlife. He especially likes to paint 's memorable spots while trying to incorporate the feelings from those locations. He prefers to work from life but thanks to his many years of working on site, he can now paint in the studio using his sketches and/or good quality photographs. John is open to giving patrons and artists tours to his studios if they wish to see his work and/or talk about his painting classes. John's favorite medium today is his oil paints mainly because he finds the colors to be more natural and he loves its buttery consistency along with the textural effects that he can achieve with it. He feels that the brush strokes that he uses reminds him of how a sculptor would apply his clay to his work. He still does works in acrylic, watercolor, pencil, charcoal and ink when he feels that the subject matter warrants it. He has begun sculpting again after being away from it since he left art school. He enjoys working in both clay and plaster. John teaches painting classes to all levels of artists, from beginners to professional, in workshops that he holds in his studio and the occasional on site outing. He loves to share his knowledge and enthusiasm with these people. His work can be found in private and corporate collections in Canada and private collections in the United States, Spain, France and Italy.