John is the in-house illustrator and cover designer for Idylls Press in Ashland, Oregon. He grew up in Wisconsin, however, where the harsh winters allowed for plenty of indoor leisure time to read and draw. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Oregon’s Clark Honors College in 2006 with a B.A. in Art History and received the 2005-2006 U of O Undergraduate Library Research Award for his paper, Pozzo’s Perspective: Visual Hagiography in the Church of St. Ignatius, Rome. In 2007 John taught Art History courses at Western Oregon University. In the fall of 2009, John will begin a Ph.D. program in Art History at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
View samples of John’s book covers and illustrations:
Many of John’s famous author art prints are available on clothing and gifts at Idylls Press’ Cafepress store.
You can also see more of John’s art at JohnMurphyArt.com.
Besides his reviews for CatholicFilmReviews.com, Catholicfiction.net and GodSpy, John is also a frequent contributor of Shakespeare-on-film reviews for bardolatry.
To see a list of John’s film reviews on this site, click here.
