The artwork presented here was created by my brother, John Vincent, who died in 1987 at the age of 26.

I was inspired to create this account by =mdog02, who created an account for his mother in the same way. You may of course comment on any of the artworks and I will reply and appreciate any feedback but there's no point offering constructive criticism. I offer these works only so that his art may be seen and enjoyed by others. My brother loved to create and loved art but never made it to art college himself, although that was a dream of his at one time. So look and enjoy, take from this what you may.

Although many of the drawings are unfinished and some of them are just rough sketches, I am not going to put anything in the Scraps section. I have scanned and photographed what works of art belong to me, and his son Jason agreed to allow what he has to be scanned and photographed by my mum's husband so he could send me a disc of the artwork that is in England. Thank you Alan and Jason, and thank you Anne for giving permission to do this

John was born in England, moved to New Jersey around the age of 2, then moved back to England with my mother and me when he was 14. He stayed with us for about a year, than went to live in Florida with our father. He painted a mural at his high school there and impressed all his teachers with his artistic ability. At the age of 18 he joined the USAF and was eventually stationed in England, not too far from Oxford. We lived in the northwest so it was a long bus ride to visit him and always a treat. His bedroom walls were covered in collages he made from magazine cuttings and he painted a mural at the base where he was stationed. He also painted a sign for a pub in the village where he lived. He would take me into Oxford to browse the secondhand bookshops and art museums. He took me to the Ashmolean Museum, where I remember first being impressed by the size, depth of color and texture of the paintings, in comparison to seeing a print in a book. It was magical.

After getting out of the air force he came to live with us for a short time, when he met the lovely young woman who would become his wife. He always loved England best and so he settled near us, got a job at a printing press and started a family. After learning the offset printing trade he started his own business, Vincent Press, where he printed, among other things, a locally produced fanzine that published some of his collage-style comic strips, The Lampheads. I don't know if I have every edition but the ones I do have will be scanned and presented here.

He taught me some drawing techniques, let me use his art materials and books, or gave them to me, and was always encouraging me in my artistic endeavors. He gave me my first canvas when I was 13, my first set of acrylic paints, my first pastels, and my first good camera, an Olympus OM10, and although I am not much of a painter I appreciated his generosity. He bought an airbrush and allowed me to experiment with that, too. He loved computers and I used to go to his shop to play the primitive games we had back then. Had he lived to see what illustration and paint programs can do I am sure he would have loved them and experimented with them as much as he did with other media.

I am terribly sad that he died but I am grateful that we had him for as long as we did, and that he was such a lovely part of our lives. He was a generous, caring, hard-working person with a silly sense of humor who inspired me and shaped my character and my art in many ways.
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Edit 10/19/05: I received the disc of John's art today and discovered a treasure trove Some of the pictures are old friends but many I have not seen before and I am delighted to be able to enjoy them and share them. It will take some time to edit and upload them all but it will be fun. Some of the photographs are of rather poor quality and some are a bit chopped off and skewed so I am doing my best to straighten, lighten and otherwise enhance them to show them to their best advantage. Some are practice sketches of a person learning to draw and some are just fantastic and magical. They are not being uploaded in any chronological order as most of them are undated. So here I go, on an adventure of random art...Enjoy

Edit 11/30/05: Okay, I am going to have to put some in scraps, as there are some very rough sketches here that really don't belong in what is becoming an unwieldy gallery. Sorry about the amount of uploads but if I only did a few a week I'd be doing this for years.

Edit 1/13/06: That's it, I am done. I know there are a few pots that haven't been photographed and it's possible that there are some other pieces of art that have escaped attention but I believe the gallery is as complete as it is going to get.

Edit 3/17/07: I was looking through an old portfolio of mine recently and found a few more of John's old drawings mixed in, which are being added.

Thank you to everyone who is giving such positive feedback and showing such great interest in John's art. It makes it all worthwhile

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His sons Adam and Jason can also be found on DevArt.

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I am *MooseMama and any replies to comments will be written by me. Hope you have a joyful day