John Edward Marin was born in 1970 in Hillsboro, New Hampshire, the youngest of six children. John's experience as a master carpenter and love for carpentry and design lead him down a new path of creativity, and his new found love of painting ignited his creative passion along with his personal quest for spiritual truth.

By the winter of 2004 John had given his first solo show at the Octane Coffee Bar and Lounge on the hip and trendy West side of Atlanta. It was during this time period that John was sure painting was what he wanted to pursue as a career.

Recently John moved to Palm Springs, CA, after moving to Los Angeles, in August of 2006. In the past two and half years John has had several showings in Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Long Beach, Seal Beach, and Beverly Hills, CA, Las Vegas, NV, Amherst, NH, and Dallas, TX. His works have also been seen on television shows as part of the set dressing. Shows include Mad TV, Lincoln Heights, ER, Miss Guided, Kath and Kim, and True Blood.

Conceptually his work is based on the idea that each painting is a communication with the subconscious, or super-conscious, an idea that was opened to him while taking an adult education class at Emory University in Atlanta. The results are introspective, emanations, which can be sometimes prophetic, inspiring, and magical. To him the works have meanings that are not necessarily going to be universal for all, but are meaningful on an individual basis.