John Hubbard (Connecticut, UK, 1931 - 2017). Title: "Winter Garden" Medium: Oil on Canvas Signed, titled and dated 1984 verso on canvas. John Hubbard was an American-born abstract impressionist painter who lived and worked in England for more than 50 years. He won the Jerwood Painting Prize in 1996. 1980s: A growing interest in rock forms, including quarries, led Hubbard to find subjects on Dartmoor, Devon, or on the Cornish coast. This involved a greater use of drawing as a means of ascertaining the essentials of a particular subject. There were also extended drawing sessions in Kew Gardens, London, the artist's own garden and the sub-tropical gardens at Abbotsbury, Dorset. This in turn led to visits to Tresco, Scilly Isles, resulting in drawings and paintings of a strange lushness. Size: 76 x 72 in. (6'4" x 6')