John Francis Marsh, AFAS
John Francis Marsh’s career as a world-renowned industrial designer and artist began when he was still a high school student in Connecticut submitting model cars to the GM Fisher Body Craftsman Guild Scholarship contest.
At that time he also began designing silverware and painting in watercolors and oil.
Marsh is an alumnus of the Los Angeles Art Center School and a veteran of the General Motors Design Center and Sundberg-Ferar Industrial Design.
In 1961 Marsh founded Hisata, Ishimaru, Montgomery & Marsh, an industrial design consultancy in San Francisco. He has continued to serve his clients since these early days of industrial design on the west coast with his firm the Marsh Design Office.
While at GM he grew to love the engineering alchemy that turns paper design into three-dimensional painted metal. This interdisciplinary experience, which brought together business, engineering and art, gave Marsh the energy and imagery that he has developed into his shop scene style of painting. It is in these shop scenes that John’s passion for history is unveiled, as each one tells the story from the concept to the finished product.
