 Since he moved to his small ranch in the Hill Country of Texas his creative output significantly increased and he continued to tirelessly explore and discover a world rich with images and objects, often complex in their appearance and profound in their meaning.The son of the noted Icelandic landscape painter Eyjolfur J. Eyfells (1886–1979) Johann Eyfells had been showing his work at international venues since the 1960s.The source of his inspiration and the love of his life was his late wife, fellow artist and painter Kristin Halldorsdottir, (1917–2002) a glamorous former Icelandic model and dress designer, who he met in California and married in 1949 shortly before coming to Florida for the first time later that year.