John Richard Hewitt

Born in Exeter, UK, John Richard Hewitt has lived in Costa Rica, the United States and Jordan. His life has taken him on many journeys before settling in Hertfordshire and establishing himself as a resident artist at Amanartis, located in Watford. 

Gods of the old Religions

How clever: take the old gods, make them impotent, make them inferior, make them non-existent; make them evil. A cruel trick, though brilliant in its capacity to brainwash. Never a true revelation of what is real but a simple retelling, a rebranding and then propaganda to make the new god ‘good’ and the old god ‘evil’.

This zoroastrian approach to faith results in an unwinnable war; and they know this/ They need the evil one as much as they love the good one, for if both were integrated into the self then their empire would fall.

Let their empire fall.

Oil on canvas. 48 X 36″ 122 x 91cm

Yemeni Boy and Ethiopian Mother and Child, Oil on canvas. 48 X 36″ 122 x 91cm

Palestinian Child,  Oil on board 

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