Jack Vincent Barnhill is a professional artist skilled in multiple medias. He currently teaches at the Naples Art Center and provides private classes.
Although largely self-taught, Jack has studied at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, under Linda Jo Russell, Chris Warner, Franklyn Liegel and Laddie John Dill. He creates full-scale realistic paintings in both in oil and acrylics and on canvas and panel.
For 6-years Jack taught Trompe O’eil and Realism at Otis College of Art and Design. He has also lectured and taught both private and public classes in Advanced Drawing, History of Pigments, Abstract Painting, Art for Children, Advances in 3-D Art, Paint Making, Pastel Painting and Drawing, Color Mixing and Theory.
Jack has been in 16 national and international shows and has been reviewed in three magazines. In 2015 his “Self Portrait” won first place in the California Open competition sponsored by the TAG Gallery. In 2019 he was invited to show at the National Art Center in Tokyo, Japan. He is a member of the Oil Painters of America, Portrait Society of America, National Oil and Acrylic Painter’s Society and the Pasadena Society of Artist. He is also a founding board member of Warrior Theatre, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing innovative art therapy to survivors of child abuse.
Jack lives in Naples, Florida USA.
My travels developed in me a love for the Human face in all its myriad colour and contours. People all over the world share a common humanity we seem to have forgotten. Merriment in a child’s eyes are the same in Iraq as Panama.
