John Tomlinson is an artist of drawing with a professional studio practice spanning almost 40 years. The trajectory of his subjects and media has gone from traditional drawing from life - to expressive drawing and painting from life - to combining drawings with animation in short motion drawing digital videos with soundworks - to a drawing series with the theme of “Modes of Escape” - to his current series of large drawings in graphite and pencil called “Dark Storms”, the revelation of repressed history and memory as positive expression - and to his digital print series "Rage : The Misery Of Men".
He was the director of the New York Studio Residency Program of the 43 U.S. and Canadian colleges of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design from 1992 to 2013.
He was professor of drawing in the Fine Arts Department of Parsons the New School for Design from 1980 to 2001.
John Tomlinson was born and educated in Boston, Massachusetts and has lived in New York since 1961.
He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Cooper Union School of Art in New York, 1970.
Having left college art educational positions after 25 years, he is devoting all of his time to his studio work, professional endeavors and community art projects.