John Maull

Born in 1952 in Los Angeles, CA
Tierra del Sol artist since 2005

John Maull is known for his vivid landscapes in ballpoint pen, colored pencil, and paint. In his youth, the artist would spend hours working with his mother in their hillside garden, those closest to Maull believe these memories serve as the primary inspiration for his prolific body of work. Maull’s abstract language reveals a practice that tunes the viewer into his passion for nature and his joy of making. Like Monet’s Chrysanthemums and other dense flora portraits that fill the canvas, Maull captures the timelessness and sense of connection that artists have with the creative processes of the natural world. A man of few words, Maull’s enigmatic text, numbers, and symbols are interwoven throughout his art, reminiscent of ancient, illegible runes whose meaning is lost except to those who inscribed them. Powerful and lush, Maull’s chromatic compositions capture the simultaneous harmony and chaos of our environment, distilling that experience to its most essential.

John Maull’s debut solo exhibition took place at Tierra del Sol Gallery in Chinatown, Los Angeles in 2020. Maull’s works have been extensively exhibited in group exhibitions throughout the U.S. and Canada at Galerie C.O.A in Montreal, Quebec, the Claremont Museum of Art in Claremont, CA, and the Descanso Gardens’ Sturt Haaga Gallery in La Canada Flintridge, CA, among others. Maull has had works acquired by several prominent private collections, including that of Beth DeWoody.