About John Hulsey
John Hulsey was born in Wichita, Kansas, and studied painting at the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Kansas before moving to New York to paint and exhibit his work. After ten years, he returned to the Midwest to build a studio and home.
His work has been exhibited in solo and juried group exhibitions, and in galleries in New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Wyoming and California and has received numerous awards and grants. His paintings are included in many private and corporate collections: the University of South Carolina Medical School; Blue Cross/Blue Shield, St. Louis, Missouri; the Environmental Law Institute, Washington, D.C.; Pace University Environmental Law School, White Plains, New York; the Hudson River Reference Collection, Garrison, New York; the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; McGraw Hill Publishing, New York, New York, the Hudson Riverkeeper Fund, Garrison, New York and the United States Embassies in Australia and Jordan.
John’s art work has been featured in American Artist magazine, Watercolor Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur magazine and International Artist Magazine, where he was named a Master Painter of the united States. He has been awarded residencies by the National Parks Service at Glacier National Park, Yosemite National Park, and Rocky Mountain National Park. Watercolor magazine has featured John’s plein air painting workshops in Provence, France. A monograph of his artwork appeared in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine.
He has produced commissioned paintings for many of the major publishers including Random House, Readers Digest, and Time Magazine, which featured his watercolor portrait of Margaret Thatcher on the cover.
International Artist magazine asked him to create a seven-part series of articles, A Painter’s Journey, which chronicled the development of his solo exhibition, Transcendence at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, Missouri. To see more of his fine art, visit: www.johnhulsey.com.
Watch this short video of John Hulsey’s interview and plein air demonstration for St. Louis PBS.
“After many years of living the landscape, so to speak, John has developed consummate skill in presenting its aspects on paper or canvas, and his generosity in imparting these skills in workshops and articles is widely known. Far beyond this, the scope of his gift to us in these works is difficult to describe. He seems to be not so much painting a picture for us as giving us the landscape in an almost literal sense. We are at the point of observation, not excluded by a frame nor witnesses to an event. We participate in the landscape, witnessing what we may always have known but rarely call to conscious thought. We know how those small waves break on the shore, how the sand shines and reflects for an instant, how the luster departs as the water sinks in. We have seen those patches of sunlight and shadow moving over the hills, and he reminds us that we know them. We know how those small rivers glow as they wind out in the sunset, although we may have forgotten in the traffic of living. John’s paintings represent, re-present, give us back our presence in the landscape and our feeling of existing in it under the sky. This is a grand gift in all senses. We need to be reminded occasionally how the light embraces, and then moves on. There is some sort of magic in capturing the instant with this degree of perception.”
- Constance Berdan Sherman (Artist and faculty member of the State University of New York)