Jon Larson

Jon is an architect, illustrator, and painter, who teaches art and sketching at the Berkeley Campus of the San Francisco Institute of Architecture, and has taught architectural drawing at the Building Education Center in Berkeley for over 20 years. He has also taught art classes throughout the Bay Area, lectured on “Art in Everyday Life,” and taught drawing at the East Bay Waldorf School. His book and magazine illustrations have been published nationally, and his artwork has been exhibited in several galleries throughout the Bay Area.

Over the last 30 years, Jon has kept sketchbooks on his travels throughout Europe and the U.S., which he uses as a source of inspiration for his artwork. Other projects have included illustrations for a deck of creativity cards for generating new ideas, inspired by Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies.” He is also an accomplished musician and has created a slide show of his dream images, set to music.

Jon’s current artwork represents his interest in landscapes as a way of seeing nature’s many moods.

Education

Bach. Of Architecture degree form Penn State University, 1974.
LEED Accredited Professional, Certified Green Building Professional and Green Point Rater Advisor
The Masters Art Program at the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts with Wolf Kahn, 1990, and Wayne Thiebaud, 1991.

Illustration Work (partial list)

Wilderness Cuisine, book by Carole Latimer, watercolor and pencil drawings
Home Magazine, pencil illustrations
Blockbusters, an illustrated deck of cards for generating ideas; ink drawings
Whole Earth Mail Order Catalogue, pencil drawings

Exhibits

Watercolor Gallery, Berkeley
Wrubel Gallery at the Nature Company, Berkeley
Weir Gallery, Berkeley
Tangents Gallery, Mendocino
Center for Psychological Studies, Albany
Mythos Fine Art Gallery, Berkeley