John Hyland

The New York painter John Hyland specializes in portraits and figure studies, though his oeuvre also includes still life, floral studies and depictions of the land, the sea and the city. Whether the subject is a friend, a model or a flower, John’s paintings utilize color, form, light and line while exploring emotional and psychological beauty and truth. His decades-long background in journalism — as an editor at The New York Times and before that as a reporter and an editor at The Hartford Courant — has had an undeniable influence on his search for that truth. Like the stories he used to edit and write, the oil paintings he creates present a narrative that stays true to the subject at hand, as the story and the image become one.