About the Artist

John A. Clapp is a self taught artist. John was inspired by is uncle. His uncle was an artist that specialized in landscapes. John's early work followed that theme. John worked in acrylic and oils doing landscapes. After working with landscapes for a while he moved into wildlife art doing realistic paintings of mostly song birds. Attending shows, patrons would often comment that the paintings looked like photographs. John won several awards with his bird paintings. Recently John has mostly worked in a very realistic style producing still life work along with some trompe l'oeil.