John Vistaunet
is a painter and digital artist known for detailed, lifelike realist paintings, often nudes, in oil and pastel and contemporary digital imagery.
"After living and working for a number of years in western Washington, we moved here to Florence, AZ in 2010. I've long been known for my lifelike nudes painted with oils and soft pastels, as well as my long running Live Canvas series. Alas, old age and progressive physical disability have conspired to put a stop to my stand up easel work, leading me to explore a new direction into abstract surrealism produced digitally on my laptop using software like Photoshop and Krita and new tools like a pressure sensitive tablet an pen."
These images can be seen here and on Facebook and Instagram. Prints are also available, but only locally.
My work creates an interplay of the flat painting surface with the illusion of three dimensional space, where background and foreground intermittently trade places to challenge the viewer's preconceptions of just where space should begin and end. Pictorial composition encompasses both space and time, as the viewer's eye is encouraged to follow a natural course through multiple planes of focus. The apparent simplicity can belie subtle levels of complexity that linger on the visual palate.
jvistaunet@gmail.com text: (425)330-2035