John Boyle

John B. Boyle (born 23 September 1941) is a Canadian painter known for his use of subjects drawn from his own specific life experience and from Canadian history. He was a part of the London Regional art movement. The National Gallery of Canada considers Boyle's paintings are "firmly within the realm of the Canadian response to the 1960s-era Pop phenomenon".

Boyle began to paint in 1960 and was confirmed in his decision to become a painter by seeing a show circulated by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam of Vincent van Gogh at the Detroit Institute of Arts, in 1962.

In 1968, he gave up teaching and became a full-time artist. His work came to favorable critical notice in the show, Heart of London, curated by Pierre Théberge for the National Gallery of Canada, 1968. The Heart of London exhibition, which featured other local artists including Jack Chambers, Greg Curnoe, and Murray Favro, brought the London Regionalism art movement to national attention.

Boyle was honoured when a detail of Tom Thomson from Boyle's painting Midnight Oil, Ode to Tom Thomson (1968, Museum London) - Thomson was one of Boyle's heroes - was used as the cover of Barry Lord's "The History of Painting in Canada" as well as the full picture on the back (NC Press, 1974). (It was the second book featuring a more-or-less complete record of Canadian art history after Russell Harper's 1966 'Painting in Canada - A History".) In 1978, an article in the Montreal Gazette described Boyle as "one of that influential handful of Southwestern Ontario artists which includes Greg Curnoe and Jack Chambers... whose work is characterized by their profound attachment to their local and by extension Canadian environment." From 1973 through the 1990s, Boyle exhibited regularly at Nancy Poole's Studio in Toronto, a commercial gallery. He is represented by Loch Gallery, Toronto.

His illustration and book design work includes The Port Dalhousie Stories by Dennis Tourbin (1987), as well as several magazine articles and book jackets.

In 1970, he served as the first president of the Niagara Artist's Cooperative, now the Niagara Artists Centre, then, in 1971, became the founding spokesperson of Canadian Artists' Representation Ontario. and served on the board of the Niagara Artists’ Company, the Canada Council Arts Advisory Panel, and the Canadian Conference of the Arts (shut-down in 2012). He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Art Gallery of Ontario, 1975–1977. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa;