John Bonner

One evening, many years ago, the artist George Nick, visited me to look at my work. At the time I felt ambivalent and lost  and couldn’t see my work clearly. I believe he saw something in my work that I was unable to see myself.

Completely isolated from any art community and any gallery, I had cold-called him after I had seen some of his work reproduced in Yankee magazine, thinking that it bore some resemblance to my own.

He lives in Concord, MA and came right over to where I was living at the time in Arlington. I made tea and propped my paintings up against the unused fireplace, one after another, bending an angle poise lamp towards them so we could see them more clearly. My first ever serious art crit began.

Now, having successfully exhibited and sold my work in multiple exhibitions, I remember almost nothing of what he said that night. He merely paid me the complement of being interested and as it turned out, that is all that mattered.

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