John Hiemstra
Official Artist
San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival
John has been drawing and painting since childhood. While attending
Interlochen Arts Academy, where he studied design and production for
the performing arts, creative writing and visual art, john discovered
he could draw and paint for a living, and has been pursuing this goal
one way or another ever since.
John met his wife, metalsmith Heather Reilly, in 1996, as he was
starting his first business in custom woodworking in San Francisco.