John Faherty was born and raised on the go with a military family. Moving frequently between Air Force bases both overseas and in the states and often between houses in the same town. He was always just getting settled in and pulling up to move again. Currently he is working as an Information Technology Technician for a small public utility about thirty miles from his home. John lives in an eighty five year old mill house in Payne City (Macon), Georgia.

At the age of 18 he joined the army and worked as a combat medic in an air crash rescue unit, a field hospital, an air defense unit, a Special Forces unit, and served in the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf war in an armored Calvary unit where he received several awards for his actions during that conflict.  Upon returning to Europe from the Middle East he left the army in 1992 - after 9 years of service.

He continued his work in the medical field at a hospital in Macon, Georgia, working as a critical care technician in cardiac and intensive care units. Later he left the medical field and went to work in the computer and Internet fields. Getting a degree in computer programming, he worked for a major Internet provider for several years and eventually wound up working with the utility where he is currently employed.

After a decade of not exploring art, he started drawing and painting again at the request of a friend who saw some old drawings that he had on his wall from over 10 years earlier. She was impressed enough with the drawings to give him some canvases, paint, brushes and an easel for his birthday and from that point he was hooked on art again.

His work has also been used in rock band posters in Washington State, and has been sold on items from t-shirts and coffee mugs to coasters and posters.

John has had several public studio spaces over the years in the old mill building in Payne City Ga. He has had his art on display in fund raiser events for multiple artists, art festival events and galleries including the Middle Georgia Art Association Gallery and the Blue Tower Galleries in Atlanta and has been invited to return and participate in another Atlanta gallery show in the spring.

You can see more of John's art at his other website: http://www.faherty.com

 

 

 

 

John Faherty: Artist, Philosopher, Weirdo “I love to paint, dabble and push pigment around until some image in my head becomes recognizable (maybe).  Pushing pigment is a better description for what I do with colors than painting. It seems the image is already there. I'm just pushing around bits of color until it is easier to see. My medium varies greatly from acrylic paint, to spray paint and even plastic resin and natural plant and animal materials. Art has a beat, tempo or rhythm and the movement of brush or fingers against the canvas with the textures of materials beneath and between lets me feel the process of creation in a way similar to the way a guitarist feels the pluck and vibration of the strings beneath the skin and instrument. I have a passion for expressing what I feel an event or the memory of a place looks like without the fear of them not matching some photograph. Discovering new ways to express my thinking and sharing the results with the world in a creative way inspires me to continue to explore who I am and what life is all about through the visual and tactile tools that birth has given me.” —John Faherty