John Duffin is an award-winning contemporary painter and printmaker whose work is based on the modern environments of cities and towns. His cityscapes of architecture, lighting and figures have a distinctive artistic voice and much to say about contemporary urban life. John’s paintings are in the tradition of LS Lowry and Edward Hopper, and hold references to cinema, graphic novels and the history of figurative painting.

John Duffin trained as a Draughtsman and Naval Architect in the shipbuilding industry at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria before studying Fine Art at Goldsmiths’ College in London - his contemporaries there were many of the Britart generation. He then studied MA Printmaking at Central St Martins in London and became a member of The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (RE) and has exhibited his prints at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition consistently for the last 20 years.

He has won many awards for his paintings and prints and his work is in many public and private collections including:

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

BBC, London

Cumbria County Council

Museum of London

University of the Arts, London

Old Mutual, London

University of Aberystwyth

Guildhall Library London

Southbank Centre London

National Football Association

Network Rail Art Collection