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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

In my childhood the most importent thing was my pencil. I drew every thing around me, especially people at work. My parents did not have the money to buy fine paper or oil-paint. So I drew on very kind of paper I could get, even on cardboard boxes and handkerchiefs. It was a little difficult to do my art at home, because we had only one small children's room for me and my two brothers. Then I my mother, she was allways ironing or looking for food. My father was at work all he time, except from sundays. Most of the time I was outside. My parents did not have any interest n my art, but that was no tragedy. I did my art just for my own. Sometimes it was better, that my arents did not have a look at the pictures I drew. I was born 1963 in a working-class area in Hamburg, a „free of art“ zone. In school I have had a good art teacher. Maybe he was the only person for me to share the ion of drawing.

After finishing school in 1981 I did several jobs. I was working in a jardin d'enfants, selling vegetables, woodwork, gardening, some jobs in the habour, cap driving...But I never stop the drawing. At this time I did the second ionabel discovery in my life - women. In a somehow mysterious way, my subjects were changing to female forms. In spring 1988 I bought a old VW mobil home. This summer I started my public presentation tour driving around Europe. I did my exhiditions just open air at the beach and in the streets and places in Munich, Paris, Biarrits, Madrid, Amsterdam, London, ....It was a great time. Back in , I did an exhibition in the wellknown gallery „The Island“ in Hamburg. Mr. Valentino Burgmann was one of the visiters . He invited me to have a look at his galleries „Raum & Kunst“. They are located in the center of Hamburg, nearby the „Mariotte“ and the „Four Seasons Hotel“. That area is called „Hanse Viertel“. It is somehow like “Rodeo Drive” in the US. Mr Burgmann took my art work into his galleries and started to show the “Colours of Soul” exhibition with two or three fotodesign pitures with changing subjects. Artlovers, who own a picture of my fotodesign and drawings are in and as well in Israel,England, , America, and Asia ... I work with the „ Raum & Kunst“ galleries since 1993. In 1996 I had the chance to buy an old farmhouse with a small forest and a river crossing the property. Since 1998 I am living there with my wife and my five years young son. Sometimes livinig in the country is rough and not realy comfortables, but it is a beautiful place to do fine art.

My subjects show silhouettes of human forms created by pencil drawing and special fotographic colors. I am using the fotographical colors to create a new design. My intention is to show the existence of a common emotional spirit of two individual human beings, the spirit of body and soul. Due to the simultaneous contrast in coloring, the figures appear in a imaginary foreground. The silhouettes linger in a dynamic state of rest in flowing movement. The subject's aura varies with it's respective color arrangement. All pictures are handsigned.

Faithfully yours

John Rhody

My subjects show silhouettes of human forms created by pencil drawing and special fotographic colors. I am using the fotographical colors to create a new design. My intention is to show the existence of a common emotional spirit of two individual human beings, the spirit of body and soul. Due to the simultaneous contrast in coloring, the figures appear in a imaginary foreground. The silhouettes linger in a dynamic state of rest in flowing movement. The subject's aura varies with it's respective color arrangement. All pictures are handsigned.