Despite all that he has come to be known for in contemporary painting; John Comer is an artist who escapes classification. "There is no particular school of painting I identify with," he insists, "except maybe 'landscape painting' as a whole, or possibly 'realistic painting'." And John Comer's words hold true. For many of his viewers, subject is perhaps all that they can decisively distinguish in John Comer's work; he does paint on-location but also spends much time in the studio working from mental images and improvising as he progresses with a painting. The result is then a finished painting that is resilient to a particular label both on the principle of John Comer's unique compositional techniques and the process by which he realizes the piece.