Johnathan Ball

Specifications

Type

framed
originals
canvas
mixed media
prints

Color

browns/naturals
greys/blacks
oranges/reds
blues
greens
metallics
pinks/purples
whites/beiges
yellows

Style

contemporary

Features

• Johnathan Ball resides in Toronto. His Photographic process has influenced his art making process from its inception and vice versa. A man of many talents, it's hard to say Johnathan is only one thing; he excels at illustration as well as painting. He has illustrated for Carnival Comics, a division of Simmons Comics, and has taught illustration since he was 16 years of age.
• At the young age of 31 he has already accomplished more than most of his contemporaries. He has been in numerous publications, including Toronto’s Where Magazine, Where Essentials, and ARTnews. In 2010 He received an emerging artist award from the Ontario Arts Council. He has auctioned work for the Canadian Foundation For Aids Research and other charitable events for fellow artists. In 2006 a fellow artist's studio was destroyed in a fire along with hundreds of thousands of dollars in paintings. Johnathan and a group of other artists participated in a show at the Gladstone Hotel wherein profits from paintings sold would be donated to their colleague. He has been commissioned by several residential and corporate clients.
• Johnathan Ball is one of the truest incarnations of an artist; talented, creative, helpful, and inspiring to those around him. His work has been called everything from ugly to dark to beautiful. Like most talented and famous artists, his work isn’t always palatable, but you cant help being intrigued. His work holds you, draws you in, and if you let it, shows you a part of the world and a part of yourself that you haven’t seen before.