John Adkins - Artist

 

John J Adkins, Jr

I received a BA in Pharmacy at Auburn University in 1976. After college, I
began taking art classes at every opportunity.
In 1992, I took a week long workshop in Taos, NM at the Fechin Institute’s
Branham Ranch with Jim Wilcox teaching En Plein Air. That was the
beginning of my current interest in Plein Air painting! Since that time, I have
studied with many of the country’s best known Plein Air artists. Among
them, Jim Wilcox, Roger Dale Brown, John Potoschink, Kim English, Matt
Smith, Kevin Mac Pherson, Kenn Backhaus, Tom Browning, Sherri
McGraw, Jeri Carter, Perry Austin, and Albert Handell, to name a few. In
1999, I laid the groundwork and was President of the Plein Air Artists of
Alabama (PAAA) for 10 years, the first Plein Air group in the State of
Alabama.

I paint for the joy of painting and the process. In my career as a pharmacist as with my life as an artist, it's the process of creating and completing the task that gives me this joy.

GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
Adkins Rollman Gallery, Co-owner, Gatlinburg, TN – 2022-present
Art Market Gallery, Knoxville, TN – 2022; Clements Fine Art, Trussville, AL;
The Gallery of Shoppes, Springville, AL; Stone Henge, Montgomery, AL;
Arceneaux Gallery, Vestavia Hills, AL; Artisan’s Heart, Guin, AL – 2013-
2015
EXHIBITS:
Sevier County Juried Biennial 21 st Show, Arrowmont School of Arts and
Crafts,Gatlinburg, TN – 2023; Fountain City Art Guild, Fountain City, AL – 2020;
Gadsden Museum of Art Plein Air Exhibition, Gadsden, AL – 2010;
Stonehenge Gallery, Montgomery, AL – 2003; Comer Museum and Arts
Center, Sylacauga, AL – 2002; Mountain Valley Arts Council, Guntersville,
AL – 2001
SHOWS:
King Family Library, Sevierville, TN – 2020; Northwest Regional Library,
Winfield, AL – 2005; Marion County Banking Company, Guin, AL – 2004
CLASSES:
Offered at Adkins Rollman Gallery, 600 Glades Road, Suite 9, Gatlinburg,
TN.

John's wife Lori joined him for a hike up to Mt. LeConte in the

Great Smoky Mountains National Park.