{"id":33907,"date":"2019-06-20T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=33907"},"modified":"2019-06-20T08:21:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T15:21:29","slug":"john-tierney-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/20\/john-tierney-2\/","title":{"rendered":"john tierney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/20\/john-tierney-2\/johntierney\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33910\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33910\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/johntierney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"2587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/johntierney.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/johntierney-68x300.jpg 68w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/johntierney-231x1024.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ahhh,<\/em> Los Angeles. Sunny skies, palm trees, and freeways. These oil paintings are the work of British painter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.john-tierney.com\/\">John Tierney<\/a>. He lives and works in the UK, but his muse is LA&#8230; clearly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;John Tierney lives in Durham City in the north east of England. He is a regular visitor to Los Angeles and most of his work takes as its subject matter the urban landscape of the city &#8211; the light in LA being of particular importance. Furthermore, the architecture of LA is, to put it mildly, seductively eclectic, taking in old and new iconic buildings and a whole range of small-scale, quirky establishments.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Working in oils, the basic aim is quite straightforward: to create paintings that provide a strong sense of place, a feeling of what it is like to be there. He visits these various locations as, in a sense, an \u2018outside\u2019 observer, one who is fascinated by the differences between them and the urban and rural landscapes of the UK.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John&#8217;s latest show, titled\u00a0<em>&#8220;Postcards from LA&#8221;<\/em>, will be opening in &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; LA! Stop by <a href=\"https:\/\/maddoxgallery.com\">Maddox Gallery<\/a>\u00a0<em>{8811 Beverly Boulevard West Hollywood}<\/em> one week from tomorrow:<strong> FRIDAY June 28th.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhh, Los Angeles. Sunny skies, palm trees, and freeways. These oil paintings are the work of British painter\u00a0John Tierney. He lives and works in the UK, but his muse is LA&#8230; clearly. &#8220;John Tierney lives in Durham City in the north east of England. He is a regular visitor to Los Angeles and most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[308,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33907"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33938,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33907\/revisions\/33938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}