John Encinias was born near Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1949. Self-taught, he started painting at the age of fifteen and began working as a full-time professional artist in 1975. He prefers painting directly from various subject matter and describes his techniques as impressionistic realism. Encinias' many exhibitions include consecutive showings at the National Academy of Western Art/Prix de West Show since 1985 and a one-man show at the Frye Museum in Seattle, Washington in 1991. His work has also been featured in shows at the national Wildlife Art Museum in Jackson, Wyoming, the Albuquerque Museum in New Mexico, and the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His paintings are in numerous private and corporate collections: Millicent Rogers Museum, Frye Museum in Seattle, Washington, United Missouri Bank in Kansas City, and U.S. West Corporate Collection in Denver. Some publications that have featured his works are Masterworks of Impressionism, a book published in 1985. Southwest Art, Art of the West , Presimmon Hill, American Artist Magazine  and Who's Who in American Art 2000.

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