BIOGRAPHY

For 35 years John S. Dykes has worked on over five thousand illustration assignments for hundreds of clients, earning recognition and awards from top illustration industry associations. Among these organizations are The Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, American Illustration, 3x3 Illustration Annual, Print Magazine, How Magazine, Step By Step Graphics, and The Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles (gold and silver medals), as well as the Luerzer's Archive 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide.

John has taught illustration at Rhode Island School of Design and New Hampshire Institute of Art. He has given presentations at schools and institutions including the University of Kansas, University of Connecticut, Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, New Hampshire Institute of Art, and The New England School of Art & Design. His work is part of the permanent collection of The Norman Rockwell Museum, The New Britain Museum of American Art, as well as in many private collections.

John’s studio and home is in Boston’s Fort Point / Seaport District in a renovated printing factory built in 1900.