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John Hermannsson

Water­colors & verse

Paintings sent by email to family and friends, and posted on Instagram — from a dory on the Colorado River to the lava fields of Fagradalsfjall and the Deschutes River canyon at home.

Watercolors & Verse The emailed paintings with their poems, as a book — read online, or download it as EPUB, an 8.5×11 PDF, or an 11×17 landscape PDF for printing.
Postcards Eighteen paintings as 4×6 postcards, ready to print, with a postcard back and a QR code to John’s Instagram. Full-bleed PDF · Whole paintings PDF
Deer Creek Narrows, watercolor by John Hermannsson
Deer Creek Narrows · Grand Canyon Suite, 2026

John Hermannsson rowing a wooden dory on the Colorado River
At the oars of a dory on the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, 2022
John Hermannsson at night beside the glowing Fagradalsfjall eruption
At the Fagradalsfjall eruption, Iceland, July 2021
About the artist

John Hermannsson

John is an architect, painter and poet. He lives in Central Oregon and goes back often to Iceland, where his family comes from.

He paints mostly in watercolor, and often on the spot: beside a spring deep in the Grand Canyon, inside an extinct Icelandic volcano, in a kayaking sketchbook on Vargas Island. For more than twenty years he has sent the results to family and friends by email, usually with a few lines about where he was, and often with a poem.

The Grand Canyon Suite comes from a seventeen-day dory trip down the Colorado River in October 2022. The Fagradalsfjall series comes from his hikes to the eruption in Iceland in 2021.

His poems are signed j.b.hermannsson, his portraits Jón Steingrímsson, and his political cartoons GOOOGLEHOPF. He posts new work on Instagram at @goooglehopf; the cartoons live at pacbrewlab.com/cartoons.