From John

I'm John DeFaro. Hi there.

June 2026.

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I wake up in gratitude knowing I get to.

I get to step outside. I get to notice. I get to remain connected to the living world. That awareness continues shaping my environmental consciousness each day. The opportunity is there every morning, waiting beneath the canopy.

Green Religion grew from that return.

I hold this work close. Closer than anything I've made before.

My studio practice moves within Green Religion, an evolving body of work shaped by environmental awareness, creative discipline, and care for the living world. From early on, I needed to be outside, roaming, gardening, and learning through the landscape.

Nearly twenty years ago in South Florida, I registered greenreligion.com while recovering from a bad flu and moving slowly through a dense, active garden. Even then, I went outside. Not as a decision. As a return.

I remember saying to myself, "I am feeling better whenever I am outside in the fresh green air and all that lives." Somewhere within that slow recovery, I quietly mumbled, "I found my Green Religion."

Something in the air, the green, the ground, my body knew. Not just moving, but repairing.

Green Religion didn't begin with me. It was already here.

Over time, it became a way of seeing, and now, a platform.

The work has grown through a range of experiences: years spent outdoors in professional landscaping, time within respected arts and culture organizations, design and licensing across home furnishings, early grounding in men's and women's apparel, and formative study at Miami Ad School, including a four-month program in Amsterdam interning within an advertising agency.

Among those experiences was a period designing licensed furniture collections and home furnishings under my birth name, John DeCristofaro. During the 1990s, I developed collections for Lexington Furniture Industries, now Lexington Home Brands, with work appearing in national publications, retail showrooms, and design catalogs across the United States.

My collection, DeCristofaro: The Art and Soul of Country, brought together furniture, textiles, and decorative accessories inspired by American landscapes, coastal living, and a sense of place. It was recognized for offering a fresh interpretation of American country design, balancing tradition with a contemporary point of view. Looking back, many of those ideas remain central to my work. Place matters. Observation matters. The objects we choose to live with shape how we experience the world around us.

I also stayed close to the dining world, working in food service and bartending at a leading sushi and Thai restaurant in Miami Beach with Japanese ownership. It was a cultural crossroads, with a quiet reverence for nature woven into daily life. A place of exchange, movement, and constant learning through people.

That perspective carries into the studio.

The work now moves across drawing, painting, performance, photography, design, workshops, and public participation. The True Trees series, along with related works on canvas and paper, developed through a return to drawing. Slowing the hand. One tree at a time.

Through Green Religion, the practice opens outward. Designing garments and objects brings the work into daily life. Art. Practice. Worn.

We work within a made-when-chosen model, a more thoughtful approach that reduces excess while allowing each piece to be produced with intention.

What we continue to hear, from within the studio and from those finding the work, is a sense of quality that holds. A modern, lasting approach. Accessible without losing care. A way to stay aware and ease climate stress through what we choose and how we live each day.

Public workshops and shared learning remain part of the practice. Spaces where making and conversation meet, and where I continue to learn from others working in care for the planet.

Everything here is made with intention. A direct way to take part.

Take a look. See what holds.

Wear it. Use it.

At the center is a commitment to the living world.

The canopy stays open.

Let it show.

To explore my artwork and the ideas behind it, visit JDeFaro.com. Green Religion is where those ideas continue beyond the studio.