About

♢ EDITORIAL by Sal McIntyre, New York ♢

John Dowell is an American printmaker, etcher, lithographer and painter whose work is best appreciated up close. Encouraging a meditative and liberating connection to the present moment, his detailed and delicate abstract forms are often inspired by, or even visual representations of, poetry, dance and music, in particular jazz. He has been influenced by abstract expressionists Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, and visionary jazz musicians such as Miles Davis and Cecil Taylor, and his works succeed in composing their own spontaneous improvisations …