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:

Museum of London

Ashmolean Museum Oxford

Guildhall Library, London

BBC, London

National Football Association Museum   

University of the Arts, London  

Old Mutual, London

University of Aberystwyth

Arts Council Collection, London

Network Rail, London

Duffin's work has been praised and collected by many private buyers including Sam Mendes (Director), Polly Toynbee (Journalist), Hunter Davies (Writer and journalist), Libby Purves (Broadcaster and writer) and many other discerning collectors. He has appeared on BBC National News and BBC Radio 4 discussing his work and has had 3 books published on his paintings.

His work is in the tradition of LS Lowry in Britain and Edward Hopper in America and like these artists he creates unique views of contemporary urban life - a combination of his ability as a draughtsman, his imagination and his personal use of perspective and colour. He makes drawings and watercolours in front of his chosen subject and takes these sketches back to his London studio where he recreates the place anew via his own imagination. His work is redolent with influences from cinema, graphic novels and the history of figurative painting, but from this comes a vision that is his alone.