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John Jennings

John Jennings was born in Idaho in 1948. He has already had a talent for art when he was very young.

One of the first underwater marine painters, John Jennings managed to achieve unprecedented skills and completeness in depicting the multidimensional life of the ocean.

Since 1990, the mural at Cannery Row in Monterey California — "Welcome Home" — John Jennings has served as an icon for marine conservation for an audience of perhaps 2 to 4 million people annually. In the decade since painting the Cannery Row mural, John Jennings' career as an internationally known marine artist has reached new heights: John Jennings has become the third American artist to be invited for a one-man exhibit at St. Petersburg's world-renown Russian Museum. The first artist was Norman Rockwell and the second, Peter Max. John Jennings has been invited to submit three originals, "The Trilogy", for permanent exhibition in the Russian Museum.

On February 18, 2004, John Jennings has achieved a milestone with a two-year appointment as the first Cultural Ambassador for the Province of the Galapagos Island.

John Jennings' detail-rich marine landscapes have been exhibited at the Gutenberg Expositions in Long Beach, California, at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, and at many fine art venues throughout the United States. John Jennings continues to be an extremely active artist, producing several oil originals per month to satisfy world-wide collectors' demand for his paintings. John Jennings popular appeal as an artist and advocate for marine conservation draws significant crowds from the environmental and marine recreation groups.

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