John Hancock

Born in Plymouth, England quite a long time ago now, I attended Brighton Art College in the 80s and went on to work as a freelance illustrator for the next 34 years. I was primarily painting figurative watercolours for book covers and as illustrations for fiction in magazines. Apart from providing me with a decent income , I was also fortunate to have enough spare time to pursue my own artistic endeavours. For quite a few years this usually meant painting portraits. I was always an admirer of the work of John Singer Sargeant and I've included here a couple of my portraits which demonstrate his influence.