KNOTTED LINES / Finger Lakes Landscapes
Artist John Whiting
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John Whiting is a lifelong resident of Schuyler County, New York, and grew up near Rock Stream, two miles west of Seneca Lake.
As an artist, John Whiting has been wearing two distinctly different hats for many years.
His creation of maze designs began thirty-some years ago, when he was intrigued by an interwoven pathways maze drawn by Lewis Carroll, reproduced in Martin Gardner’s "Mathematical Recreations" column in Scientific American. Carroll’s maze was awkward, and he wondered if he could make something like it that was graceful. Drawing on ideas from Celtic manuscript illumination and various geometrical forms, he has continued to explore the possibilities of the knotted line as an art object ever since. The book Knotted Lines – The Mazes of John Whiting is the first publication of his work.
He began painting landscapes about 1980. His oil paintings of the Finger Lakes region are done mostly on site, using linen canvas, masonite, and wooden panels for supports. They are emotional and expressionistic, and have been shown at galleries and museums around the region, including Red Newt Cellars Gallery and the Arnot Art Museum. He received a grant from the ARTS of the Southern Finger Lakes in 1999 to paint and present talks and demonstrations. His oil painting, Seneca, was reproduced as a billboard as part of the ARTS’ millennium project, Canvases…just down the road. John continues to enjoy exploring and painting the landscape. Click to read
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