Education
Many of Chapman"s paintings have been reproduced as limited edition prints and he has also completed several commissions for Josiah Wedgwood and Sons.
Many of Chapman"s paintings have been reproduced as limited edition prints and he has also completed several commissions for Josiah Wedgwood and Sons.
He has painted mainly in acrylics, but he is equally proficient with oils, watercolours and gouache. In 2003, a book John Chapman"s Lancashire was published by Halsgrove
During his time at school, Chapman developed an interest in trains and the railway art of Terence Cuneo and others After leaving school in 1961, Chapman was employed as a layout artist and later as a technical illustrator working on his own paintings in the evenings and at weekends.
In 1968 Chapman became an independent, professional artist making his first sales of railway paintings and receiving commissions for specific subjects in oils.
Major exhibitions soon followed at West. H. Patterson"s gallery in Mayfair and at public galleries in his native Lancashire. In 1984, one of John"s paintings was exhibited in the Royal Academy"s Summer Exhibition.