Artist
Original acrylic paintings by John Caruana — celebrating Malta's heritage, landscapes, and identity.
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Dimensions: 60cm x 60cm
EUR 900
A bold, energetic composition where the iconic Maltese Cross emerges from a swirl of vivid dots and colour. John explores the tension between order and disorder — the cross as an anchor of identity amid the beautiful chaos of modern life and a rapidly changing world.
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Dimensions: 100cm x 100cm
EUR 2,000
Inspired by the intricate tile patterns found across Malta's historic streets and courtyards, this large-scale work celebrates the quiet craftsmanship woven into everyday Maltese life. The repeating geometric forms echo both tradition and timelessness.
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Dimensions: 70cm x 70cm
EUR 500
A raw and expressive piece where two Maltese Crosses collide in a burst of paint and energy. The splatter technique reflects the duality of heritage — something both sacred and alive, structured yet untamed — a symbol that carries weight and freedom in equal measure.
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas, 2 Canvases
Dimensions: 60cm x 70cm each
EUR 700
A diptych that lifts Maltese heritage beyond the island and into the cosmos. Two canvases, two panels of the same story — the star motifs that have long adorned Malta's festas now drift freely across an infinite field, as though the traditions and symbols of a people have been released into orbit.
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Dimensions: 120cm x 50cm
EUR 800
An elegant profile portrait rendered in bold, geometric abstraction. The tall, narrow canvas mirrors the subject's poise and quiet strength. Inspired by the noble women of Malta's history, Marquise is a meditation on grace, identity, and the stories carried in a single glance.
Medium: Acrylics on Paper
EUR 350
A ballerina rises on pointe, arms open to the sky, as a burst of golden and blue light radiates behind her. Cradled within the flowing folds of her red dress is the unmistakable silhouette of Valletta's skyline. Heritage Ballerina is John's tribute to Malta itself: a place of grace and fire, of ancient beauty expressed through living art.
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
EUR 300
A Maltese townscape rendered in earth tones and fire — rooftops, church towers, and ancient walls rising against a sky of deep cobalt and burning orange. Below the buildings, the paint runs and drips downward in pale rivulets, as though the heritage itself is slowly dissolving. Melting Heritage is a meditation on impermanence: the beauty of what endures, and the fragility of what we risk losing.
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
EUR 400
A face tilted upward, eyes half-closed, bathed in warm amber and soft shadow — a figure caught in a private moment of reverie or longing. The loose, gestural brushwork gives the portrait an almost dreamlike quality, as though the subject exists somewhere between waking and sleep. Mystic Feeling is an intimate work, tender and still, inviting the viewer to pause and feel alongside her.
Medium: Acrylics on Paper
EUR 350
A torso composed entirely of interlocking geometric planes — triangles of red, blue, yellow, and black — erupts upward from a pale ground, crowned by a wild halo of straw-coloured hair. The work is bold, playful, and unapologetically physical, celebrating the human form as a mosaic of colour and energy. Prismatic Fit is John at his most cubist: joyful, fragmented, and alive.
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Dimensions: 100cm x 70cm
Private Collection
A tribute to one of Malta's most enduring landmarks, the windmill of Naxxar stands as a symbol of ingenuity and resilience. John renders it in vivid, abstracted colour — honouring the structure not just as architecture, but as a living part of the Maltese landscape and memory.
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Dimensions: 100cm x 70cm
Private Collection
A portrait that celebrates the inner world of a woman — vibrant, complex, and impossible to contain. The explosion of colour surrounding the figure is not chaos but expression: a visual language for the richness of thought, emotion, and creativity that defines her.
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Private Collection
A celebration of the iconic Maltese doorway — the bieb — rendered in a riot of primary colour and bold geometric planes. The teal double doors, crowned by a Maltese Cross and adorned with ornate brass knockers, stand as a portal between the everyday and the eternal. John frames this beloved architectural detail not merely as a building element but as a symbol of home, welcome, and the enduring pride of Maltese identity.
Medium: Acrylics on Paper
Private Collection
A triptych of three companion paintings, each capturing a different species in a moment of vivid life — bee-eaters perched in quiet companionship, robins locked in a spirited mid-air encounter, and blue macaws resting side by side on a branch. Together the three works form a meditation on connection, coexistence, and the beauty of the natural world.
Medium: Acrylics on Paper
Private Collection
A figure caught in pure, uninhibited movement — arms outstretched, body arched, surrendering entirely to the rhythm. Bold sweeps of blue and orange surge around the dancer like wind and fire. John captures not just a moment of dance but the feeling of it: the release, the joy, the complete freedom of letting go.
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Private Collection
A mosaic-like figure rendered entirely in shards of vivid colour holds an apple aloft against a warm gilded background. The work reimagines the ancient story of temptation through a contemporary lens — desire, beauty, and consequence woven together in every luminous facet of this complex portrait.
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Private Collection
The gallarija — Malta's distinctive enclosed timber balcony — takes centre stage in this bold, colour-blocked composition. Painted in deep cobalt blue against a field of vivid amber and red, John transforms a familiar architectural feature into something monumental — a quiet icon of Maltese domestic life, reimagined with contemporary force.
Medium: Acrylics on Paper
Private Collection
An abstracted vision of Malta's rooftops and skyline, rendered in loose, gestural strokes of ochre, teal, crimson, and earth. Figures and forms dissolve into one another — architecture becoming people, people becoming landscape — in a composition that speaks to the inseparable bond between a place and those who inhabit it.
Medium: Acrylics on Paper
Private Collection
A Maltese window — framed by a mosaic of hand-painted squares in every colour of the spectrum — becomes the focal point of this joyful, pattern-rich work. Heritage Upstairs is a love letter to the textures and colours of the Maltese streetscape, seen through the eyes of an artist who finds wonder in the everyday.
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Private Collection
A figure seen from behind, shoulders turned inward, the body wrapped in layers of dark, fragmented texture that suggest both clothing and burden. Hidden Pain is a quietly powerful work about the things we hold inside — the grief, the struggle, the silent endurance that so often goes unseen by the world.
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Private Collection
A triptych of three female figures, each seen from behind or in partial profile, their bodies rendered in warm, expressive strokes of ochre, crimson, and teal. Together they tell a single story of inner struggle carried with quiet dignity — a meditation on the emotions we conceal from the world.
Medium: Acrylics on Paper
Private Collection
A profile portrait of extraordinary fluidity — sweeping ribbons of teal, copper, gold, and grey flow together to form a woman's face and hair in a single unbroken gesture. The work feels simultaneously ancient and modern, evoking the masks of carnival and the timeless beauty of the feminine form. Lady in Copper is one of John's most lyrical paintings: a study in movement, colour, and quiet mystery.
Medium: Acrylics on Paper
Private Collection
Two sailboats rest on still water as the sky above them erupts in a blaze of orange, crimson, and deep blue — rays of light fanning outward from the horizon like a crown. The sea below mirrors the drama above, its surface alive with reflected gold and shadow. Maltese Sunset captures the raw, theatrical beauty of the island's evenings, where the sky and sea conspire to create something unforgettable.
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Private Collection
A delicate profile rendered in warm washes of ochre and blush, the figure's face tilted gently upward as though receiving light. The work is spare and intimate — a few confident lines and soft colour fields conjuring a whole inner world. She Feels is a quiet piece about receptivity and presence: the way emotion registers on the body before it finds words.
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Private Collection
A face assembled from hundreds of hand-painted mosaic squares gazes directly outward — blue eyes clear and unwavering beneath a flowing headscarf of teal and green. The pixelated surface gives the portrait a digital energy that contrasts with the warmth of the brushwork beneath. She Speaks is a powerful statement about identity, visibility, and the courage it takes to be truly seen.
Medium: Acrylics on Paper
Private Collection
A cat's face fills the entire canvas — fur rendered in thick, impasto strokes of teal, orange, white, and gold, the eyes a piercing, luminous green. The painting pulses with energy and presence, the animal's gaze direct and unblinking. The Cat in You is a celebration of wildness and instinct: the untamed part of every creature, human or otherwise, that refuses to be domesticated.
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Private Collection
Valletta's iconic skyline — domes, bastions, and spires — rises from a sea of colourful mosaic squares in this panoramic, large-scale work. The upper half of the canvas is a grid of bold primary colours; the lower half dissolves into pale, textured earth, as though the city floats between the vivid and the ancient. The Fort is John's most ambitious cityscape: a love letter to Malta's capital, painted in the language of celebration.
Medium: Acrylics on Paper
Private Collection
A figure in three-quarter profile, crowned with a dramatic headdress of dark feathers and gold, stares outward with a single piercing blue eye. The face is rendered with raw, expressive brushwork — earth tones and shadow — while the gold markings on the headdress catch the light like ancient armour. Below, the figure's hands are stained deep crimson, the body bearing the marks of battle. The Warrior is a visceral, unflinching portrait of strength and sacrifice — a figure from myth made flesh through paint.
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Private Collection
Valletta's famous silhouette — the golden dome of the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the spire of St Paul's Pro-Cathedral, the layered rooftops of the capital — glows against a dramatic sky of deep navy and billowing cloud. The harbour stretches in bands of teal and forest green in the foreground, while the city itself is rendered in warm blocks of amber, coral, and rose. Valletta Sky is a bold, colour-saturated homage to one of the world's great capital cities, seen at its most luminous and alive.