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John Richard Hewitt Organic Biomorphic Abstract Artist

*last updated 22nd October, 2025

Tip Of The Iceberg...

  • Ex-accounts clerk (lasted 6 months);
  • ex-financial adviser (lasted 6 weeks);
  • flamenco guitarist;
  • drove Ridley Scott on a movie;
  • joined a cult;
  • left a cult;
  • thought about starting a cult (but I didn't);
  • ex-waiter (phenomenal tips);
  • ex-RSPCA (wildlife rescue);
  • writer (under my own name and various pseudonyms);
  • artist.
  • Lived 10 years in the USA (Wisconsin, Nebraska, Arizona);
  • lived two years in Costa Rica;
  • lived 7 months in Jordan, studying Classical Arabic;
  • back in the UK, taught myself Classical Chinese;
  • taught myself to paint.
  • Now: full-time artist and writer.

I have shipped my art worldwide including New York, Colorado, Miami, Hong Kong, Australia, South Africa and Europe.

Flamenco took me to open air concerts in Costa Rica, while Arabic took me to the Valley of the Moon, and sleeping in the desert. Then there was a brief moment waking up on park benches with Big Ben as my alarm clock. Then, back with a 'home', Chinese gave me internal mystical pines and moonlit nights.

My art and poetry are expressions of the vast landscape of experience that has formed my world; from prayer in the desert to hieroglyphics in the jungles of Costa Rica to witchcraft on windswept moors in the South West. My journey has thus been one of deep ritual, occult practices and powerful emotion; and my art and my writings reflect that ongoing journey.

My first love was cubism, and I have journeyed full circle. There are some styles of painting that I just cannot work on anymore; like sand mandalas, they have had their time. I can't even call it Cubism any more; perhaps I have now left the circle.

I don't use social media such as LinkedIn, Twitter (X), Instagram etc. for so many reasons. What I find interesting is when people approach me and ask how do people find me without social media. I look at them and say, “Like you, just now.” It then dawns on them that there is a whole world of connectivity, serendipity and ‘coincidence’ that relies not on social media.