Artist John Potter was raised in the Upper Great Lakes country – on and off the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe Indian Reservation in northern Wisconsin – where he grew up with an abiding love for the Natural World in the forests of the Great Northwoods.Drawn to the Arts from childhood, John went on to graduate from Utah State University, earning Degrees in Painting and Illustration. He then spent twenty years as an award-winning illustrator before committing his attention to painting full time in 2002.