John Sheehan
| Date of Birth: | 28 December 1972 |
| Origin: | Melbourne |
Sheehan is a Melbourne based painter who studied under Australian artists Philip Hunter, Ian Parry and Vic Majzner at Victoria College and the VCA in the early 1990s. He was greatly influenced by Frank Stella’s idea that modern painting’s strength of flat dynamic colour could be coupled with traditional illusionism to renew pictorial space. Sheehan’s use of pure pigmented paint was greatly influenced by the late independent art teacher and paint manufacturer Edal Marcus. Figures as diverse as Titian, Sesshu, Goya, Turner, Klee, De Kooning and John Walker have all been influential.
