Biography:
John Nesta is a native of New England. He studied painting and fine art at the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. Since 1968 Mr. Nesta has maintained his own gallery starting in Revere and moving on to Salem and being a co-founder of the Salem Art Association. Since then, the lure of the Cape Ann light has held him captive of Gloucester where he has remained working in the oldest art colony in the United States, the Rocky Neck Art Colony.