John Fisher was born in Coventry in 1938 and educated at Camberwell School of Art.

In this period Camberwell was known for its adherence to drawing as a basis for art education.

 

Since graduating he has practised in several media, including sculpture and printmaking, but in recent years has worked mainly in oil on paper and sometimes canvas. Represented by Francis Kyle Gallery since 1986, Fisher has travelled widely in Europe and Asia in pursuit of subjects which satisfy his interest in architecture and landscape, recorded in ten one-man exhibitions: Villages and Valleys of the Ardèche (1988), Provence and Pamphylia (1989), Egypt and Italy (1991), Jordan and Italy (1993), Central Asia (1996), In Mongolia (1998), Writers' rooms (2002), Writers' rooms 2 (2006), Writers' rooms 3 (2008) and Writers' rooms 4 (2010).

John Fisher has been a regular contributor to many of the Gallery's theme exhibitions and special projects, including The Italian Journey: Ten Artists go South in the Footsteps of J W Goethe (1987), Paradise... is here: Painters in Moghul and Rajput India (1989), Mozart's Travels, shown at the Lincoln Centre, New York (1991), The Piero Trail (1994), The Saxon Shore (Francis Kyle Gallery, 1997 and the King's Lynn Art Centre, 1998), Lair of The Leopard: Twenty artists go in search of Lampedusa's Sicily (2005), Everyone Sang: A view of Siegfried Sassoon and his world by twenty-five painters today (2006), РОДИНА (2008),That gong-tormented Sea: contemporary painters pursue the idea and the reality of Byzantium (2009) and Jumping for Joyce: Contemporary painters revel in the world of James Joyce (2013). In 2000 John Fisher was a major participant in The Art of Memory: Contemporary Painters in search of Marcel Proust, shown also at the National Theatre on the South Bank in 2001, the theme exhibition which marked the beginning of his encounters with writers’ rooms.