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JohnW.Horne.com

July 1990 – Present (21 years 5 months) Woodstock, GA, (greater Atl. metro area)

Years ago I chose to focus my creative energies to assist the development of young creative & artistic abilities/talents & to create a a bridge between 'pockets of artistic genius' where they could communicate, sharing ideas successes, challenges & open concepts.

12 years as drawing teacher (Adult & Teens, all skill levels) in Metro Atl. Area. Affiliated with 4 Art Centers, after-school art instructor Fulton County Schools, twenty-eight private students since 2002, twenty-six have graduated, twenty-five accepted into their University of choice......"

I try to work closely with area school Instructors to provide the highest quality assistance possible to them & their students. My past students continue their art studies at: RISD, PARSONS, RINGLING, AUBURN, UGA, GA STATE, SYRACUSE, MICA, NEW PALTZ, COLUMBIA, SAIC, KENNESAW STATE, IAU, FIT, COLUMBIA TEACHER's COLLEGE, NEW PALTZ, SCAD.

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Ascribing to classical & intuitive instruction, borrowing as best as I can from the master's methods of execution, now often referred to as Atelier Schools. I do utilize grids with all beginning students, the tool was appropriate for Leonardo, Raphael & Durer & it remains completely relevant today. We emphasize light & shapes over line, working from: life, creative imagination, still life, and photos - some supplied by me, others by the students - where all students know & adhere to my 1st & 2nd maxims: "integrity is not a luxury" & "an artist never allows her/his self held prisoner to a point of reference". Their work is not & can never be derivative or copied work. If project goals require precise replication (skeletal rendering) they rely on source material as inspirational only. I am as proud of my student's originality and their honesty as I am of their diligence and creative abilities.

References always available upon request!

www.flickr.com/photos/danceartist/

Nikon F2

Nikon D70

Nikon 50mm 1:1.4 (manual)

Nikon 50mm 1:1.8AF D

Nikkor 100-300mm 1:5.6

Nikon 35-80mm 1:4-5.6 D

Nikkor 35-105mm 1:3.5-4.5 AF

Do Not Own, Do Not Use Flash attachments of ANY sort at any time!

i decided when i was in school that if i saw something i really liked & wanted to shoot that it made no sense to

change the outcome with a flash. i chose to use film and lenses that would compensate for those places that were

traditionally 'challenged' or 'too dark'.

my first 35mm, Mamiya 1000 DTL with it's spot & average meters, also provided up to 3200ASA to which i added a 1:1.4 55mm screw mount lens. it was a workhorse and only recently has it 'gone to ground' with a completely jammed film advance. they tell me it is ancient and cannot find parts for it, so i hang on to it for posterity because it literally 'got me here today' and after 12,000+ rolls of film it deserves a little respect, don't you think?

my wife found flickr quite some time ago - she has her own site:

www.flickr.com/photos/fourgold/

i am very glad she was kind enough to share the information!

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A LITTLE OF MY THEORY

i am really happy that i have recently returned to my first love in the arts - photography. it brings a fresh approach to my drawing/painting just as they enable me to see even more in my photographs. i shoot & create from the point of view: it feels right.

far from the technical, tho' the techniques need be pure & accurate, i am not one to get caught up in that morass, and i teach art the very same way. this 'holistic' approach

works for me, and apparently for my students, so well that i am continually surprised that others do not use it. oh well, perhaps i am just too simple minded, truth be told, worse things could be said about my me or my work. at least it provokes a response, good or bad, it needs to present a premise that requires a reaction - that is the goal of art ....... but honestly i don't worry about that much either, just create, photo, write what 'feels' appropriate to me at the time.

maybe that is why my work cannot be revisited. you cannot remake what you have made - it will never be the same, the feeling, inner attitude, zone of the artist changes as does the subject. i think that is the real difference between crafts and art. don't get me wrong - i love much of the work that will be classified as crafts, but it is not fine or high art. simply because for a work to 'qualify' as fine art it requires elements from the artist - if you can find the way to imbue a part of yourself into your work you have made the plateau. whereas if you are 'going thru the numbers' regardless of medium, it is craft. so wood, clay, pencil, stone, acrylic, oil, pastel works can reside in either camp - it has nothing

to do with the medium and less to do with the subject. the difference is resides with what the artist brings to & leaves within the project.

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