Born in Brockville Ontario ,1968
John Climenhage has been painting,teaching and exhibiting throughout Canada and the U.S. since 1989. He apprenticed in Victoria with acclaimed oil painter Jim Gordaneer from 1994-1999. He has a vast knowledge of art history which he references in both his landscapes and abstract works. His paintings incorporate theories of quantum physics and existential philosophies in a two dimensional field upon which the painting occurs as an event.
Works in both private and public collections in Australia , Canada , Cuba, El Salvador , England , France , Germany , India , Mexico , Scotland, Spain , and United States