John Vazalinskas
Born in Lithuania in 1940, John Vazalinskas always delighted in discerning features of his environment which make it particularly attractive to him, thus gravitating toward design and a professional career in engineering. Along the way, he was busy depicting the world as he saw it, progressing from caricatures and cartooning during school years to a hobby in figurative and abstract experimentation in acrylics while he worked and eventually to a “second career” in oil painting. Although mainly self-taught, he has also benefited from fine art courses and numerous workshops. Painting alongside artist colleagues, he strives to continually refine his skills in observing and interpreting his chosen subjects. While he feels more expressive painting natural landscapes, he enjoys capturing urban scenes with impact because this requires a range of perception that exceeds the traditional limits of composition, shape, light and colour. His works are in collections across Canada, in the U.S.A., Europe and Australia.