ABOUT THE ARTIST


Born in Tachikawa, Japan, the son of a career Air Force officer, John Deas has lived in Japan, Germany, Africa, Okinawa, the Philippines, and many states in the United States.

After high school, John joined the U.S. Navy and became a Hospital Corpsman stationed with the U.S. Marines.  Four and a half years later he left the military with an Honorable Discharge.  In 1977 he returned to the family home in Charleston.  He graduated from The College of Charleston in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science in Business.

John began taking photographs at the age of 4 using his grandfather's old Brownie camera.  He has taken thousands of images using a variety of cameras, the majority were taken using different SLR cameras.  He studied photography in high school and college and had his own  darkroom for developing, printing, and enlarging his images. He makes images of the things he truly loves, specializing in Landscapes and Nature Photography.   In 2006 John  converted to  digital photography.  He has undertaken numerous photo shoots to locations such as Death Valley National Park,  Everglades National Park, Key West, Yosemite National Park, Bodie, Mono Lake, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Acadia National Park,  Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, and the Canadian Rockies.

John has a deep love of nature and all things in it.  Hiking along the Appalachian Trail, The Great Smoky Mountains, the Blue Ridge, and the Western United States provide a wide variety of scenic and nature images.  Water is  a common theme or a part of many of his images.  Sunrise, sunsets, the rural south,  the vast desert, the ocean and the mountains are some of the scenes captured.   He is available for custom photographic work.

Mr. Deas is an active member of the Arts Council of York County.

He continues to attend classes and seminars to further enhance his abilities to capture and reproduce images as he saw them when the shutter was tripped. 

John's work has been published in Creative Loafing, Forsyth Living,  Rubber & Plastics News, Up In Cumming Magazine, and the South Carolina Arts Monthly Magazine.