Welcome to JohnFaherty.ComAbout The ArtistJohn Faherty was born and raised on the go with a military family. Moving frequently between Air Force bases both overseas and in the states and often between houses 
in the same town. He was always just getting settled in and 
pulling up to move again. Currently he is working as an 
Information Technology Technician for a small public utility 
about thirty miles from his home. John lives in an eighty five 
year old mill house in Payne City (Macon), Georgia. 
At the age of 18 he joined the army and 
worked as a combat medic in an air crash rescue unit, a field 
hospital, an air defense unit, a Special Forces unit, and served 
in the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf war in an armored Calvary unit 
where he received several awards for his actions during that 
conflict.  Upon returning to Europe from the Middle East he left 
the army in 1992 - after 9 years of service. 
He continued his work in the medical field 
at a hospital in Macon, Georgia, working as a critical care 
technician in cardiac and intensive care units. Later he left 
the medical field and went to work in the computer and Internet 
fields. Getting a degree in computer programming, he worked for 
a major Internet provider for several years and eventually wound 
up working with the utility where he is currently employed.
After a decade of not exploring art, he 
started drawing and painting again at the request of a friend 
who saw some old drawings that he had on his wall from over 10 
years earlier. She was impressed enough with the drawings to 
give him some canvases, paint, brushes and an easel for his 
birthday and from that point he was hooked on art again.
His work has also been used in rock band 
posters in Washington State, and has been sold on items from 
t-shirts and coffee mugs to coasters and posters.
John has had several public studio spaces 
over the years in the old mill building in Payne City Ga. He has 
had his art on display in fund raiser events for multiple 
artists, art festival events and galleries including the Middle 
Georgia Art Association Gallery and the Blue Tower Galleries in 
Atlanta and has been invited to return and participate in 
another Atlanta gallery show in the spring. 
You can see more of John's art at his other website:
http://www.faherty.com
John Faherty: Artist, Philosopher, Weirdo
“I love to paint, dabble and push 
pigment around until some image in my head becomes 
recognizable (maybe).  Pushing pigment is a better 
description for what I do with colors than painting. It 
seems the image is already there. I'm just pushing around 
bits of color until it is easier to see. 
My medium varies greatly from acrylic paint, to spray paint 
and even plastic resin and natural plant and animal 
materials. Art has a beat, tempo or rhythm and the movement 
of brush or fingers against the canvas with the textures of 
materials beneath and between lets me feel the process of 
creation in a way similar to the way a guita