John Tomlinson taught drawing in the Parsons The New School for Design Fine Arts Program for 20 years. He is director of the New York Studio Program of the 36-school Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

He lives in Manhattan and has a house and studio in the Delaware River Highlands in New York State where he is active artistically and in the community.

His one-person show in New York, at the Painting Center, "small gestures / MODES OF ESCAPE", was reviewed in the New York Times.

He presented "small gestures MODES OF ESCAPE", an extensive digital video of "drawings in motion" and musical compositions, with 2 episodes entitled "Go to Your Room" and "Run", at the DIGit Media Arts Exposition in Narrowsburg, NY, in August 2006. It is accessible from http://www.johnwTomlinson.com and will be available in excerpted form as a video podcast from http://www.artsalliancesite.org/programs/digit_podstock.html His short music and sound compositions are accessible from http://www.johnwTomlinson.com/ShortStack

A Flash slideshow "A Drawing Compilation" can be seen at www.johnwTomlinson. com/html/next.drawings.html