John Mullane

John Mullane sees the beauty of nature where it could easily be overlooked - surrounded by the concrete and skyscrapers of New York City. Mullane lives in the Bronx and works in Manhattan, doing his fieldwork in nearby Central Park and at The Bronx Zoo. A former rock musician, he traded his drumsticks for paintbrushes after he discovered the book, The Art of Robert Bateman in a library. Inspired, he taught himself to paint over the next couple of years. In 1992, Mullane submitted his first serious attempt at painting wildlife into the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum's prestigious "Birds in Art" exhibition and was accepted. Mullane began accepting commissions in 1994, and today, only a decade after teaching himself to paint, he is unable to keep up with the collector demand for his fascinating compositions that reveal the wonder of the familiar.