The show by a leading member of the Royal Ulster Academy is a mixture of oils, pastels, and lithographs, and date from 1960, when he was still studying at the Slade School of Art in London, through to some of his most recent paintings, completed in November 2016. John was born in Belfast in 1932 and showed a raw talent in art from an early age, studying first under the tuition of the renowned Irish painter, Charles Lamb , before enrolling in the Belfast College of Art in 1953.