About

John is an award-winning film-maker & artist

Unique Collectible Artworks

John’s meticulously detailed cutaway artworks for major studio film properties have gained international acclaim and his work has been published in conjunction with Pixar, Lucasfilm, Twentieth Century Fox and Universal Studios on properties such as Alien, Star Wars, Batman, Halo, Warhammer and Serenity/Firefly.

Emulating the film-makers he admires who achieve as much of the shot as possible ‘in camera’ with minimal VFX, John achieves his sci-fi hardware art with paint before pixels, working traditionally on 300gm watercolour paper using pencil & ink before applying multiple layers of watercolour & gouache to produce complex paintings with incredible detail, texture and depth. Each unique piece has a production time running into hundreds of hours,

Due to the nature of studio-licensed published art, these pieces cannot be reproduced as prints, creating an exclusive portfolio of unique large format originals depicting some of sci-fi cinema‘s most iconic hardware.

Film-making

John has made music videos, environmental campaign films and produced several films showcasing his work as an illustrator. The music video he conceived and directed, ‘The Joy and the Wonder’, written and recorded with his band Last Picture Show won ‘Best Music Video’ at the 2021 Hollywood Art and Movie Awards film festival and was shortlisted at several other film festivals. He is currently developing his first short film and follow-up feature-film screenplay.

Whether as writer, producer, director or editor, John's work is typified by a keen social conscience, a love of visual & audio spectacle and a diligent attention to detail across all disciplines.

Latest

EXHIBITION in CENTRAL LONDON

John recently partnered with The Troubadour Gallery - owned by Hollywood fixers Golden Ticket London - who hosted John’s first ever exhibition of original artworks in the heart of Soho, London. The free exhibition ran from April 14th to May 17th - very special thanks to Lex, Zara, Brendan and James for making this happen.

The same pieces will be on display in London for for a limited 4 day run at this year's SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival, 19th-22nd June. The artworks will be available for ticket-holders to view in the upstairs Member's Bar of the Finsbury Park Picturehouse Cinema, north London ( right next to Finsbury Park tube ).

This is the last chance to see this particular collection of originals; with seven of the artworks reserved to buy at Propstore’s forthcoming auctions in September and December. More details here .

Major Franchise Originals

John ( pictured right) with a private buyer who recently bought John’s original 2012 cutaway painting of Games Workshop’s Baneblade Tank - one of several meticulously detailed original large format paintings to have sold in recent months.

Buy Original Artwork

John’s portfolio of unique cutaway artworks are available to buy. To arrange a private viewing or find out more about owning a John R. Mullaney original, please email John to see these beautiful one-off collectibles from the worlds of Star Wars, Alien, Halo and many more…