Art

Jon Weiss is a fine art painter & illustrator who has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 35 years. Born in Chicago and raised in New Jersey, he moved to California in the early 1980s to pursue art and music. He attended both San Francisco Art Academy and the San Francisco Art Institute, where he studied both graphics and illustration arts before pursuing a career as a fine art and commercial painter. In the early stages of his painting career, murals and decorative arts were the focus, eventually giving way to a more personal form of expression in gallery format paintings. Jon’s love for traditional Renaissance painting and etching combined with more organic modernism provides the basis for his unique and multi-stylistic compositions. His work is currently focusing on flowers and botany incorporating design motifs from around the world. Jon’s work can be found in many private and public spaces including Pandora offices in downtown Oakland and Haight Street Market in San Francisco.