An artists journey

A San Francisco, Bay Area native, John Gowan is a landscape artist known for his oil and acrylic paintings of California landscapes. Gowan has always held a passion for colors found in nature and the creative process of transforming individual colors into stimulating works of art. Beginning in his youth, the artist relished the experience of creating and experimenting with the aesthetics of color, and of re-creating the world through his own eyes with the medium of sketching and painting. Independent and resourceful, Gowan developed his artistic skills through self-education and self-discipline and draws his inspiration for his art from the natural world around him, focusing on landscapes. Gowan's work takes viewers on a journey from the rugged western coastline to California's golden hills to the beautiful Sierra mountains, from sunrises to sunsets, with all the natural beauty of California. The splendor of the natural landscape compels him to strive to recreate the magnificence of nature in ways that invite the eye to examine environmental scenes at an in-depth perspective.