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Artist: John Downton F.B.A.S. F.R.A.S. F.A.S.M.A.Born in Sydney, Australia in 1939, John studied at the Royal Art Society of NSW under the tutelage of Kenneth Green, Alan Hanson, Arthur Murch and private teacher George Duncan. He also spent many years Plein Air painting with master artist Leonard Long OAM.
Painting career started 1973. In 1974 John won second prize in the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Squadron Art Competition. John also won the first prize in the Caltex Art Award in 1976, 1977 and 1978. He won Bega Art Society Fellowship in 1982. He won the Kiama Council Commercial Garden Art Design Award in 1986 and the Australian Navy 75 Years Anniversary National Seascape Art Competition in 1987.
John was the first artist ever invited to hold an exhibition at the Mitchell Library in Sydney celebrating the 1988 Bicentennial. A booklet was published of this exhibition.
John won a Japanese Cultural Award and Citation at the 25th Taiyo Art Award in 1989. He won a special citation for outstanding at the 35th Annual Pacific Cultural Exhibition and the First Prize trophy for an outstanding painting.
One of John Downton’s works was reproduced as an international Christmas Card by Westpac Bank in 1990. Another was reproduced as the NSW Parliament House card in 2000.
In 1991 John was invited by the Irish to hold a one man exhibition in Dublin as part of Dublin’s official “Cultural City of Europe” celebrations.
John is one of Australia’s foremost landscape painters whose remarkable talent has won him countless art competitions and awards. His works are an integral part of many of Australia’s best corporate collections.
John is a member of the Australian Society of Marine Artists and the Royal Art Society of NSW.
John was awarded the Australian Society of Marine Artists Presidents Medal 2004 and a Fellow the same year.
John Carey Downton remains true to the integrity of his art, delighting us with his sense of colour and light, capturing the spirit of the vast, rugged Australian landscape, the glorious majesty of the mountains and the subtle tranquility of the rural countryside.
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