Original artwork description:

I’ve been working with the image of a single cloud looming on the horizon for a long time. It speaks to me as a simplified, graphic, iconic representation of landscape – it could be any place, yet a very specific and special place all at once. I take much inspiration from the memories and experiences of travel.

I don’t really paint scenes, I paint the experience and memory that I return with after having been somewhere, hence the basic compositional foundation upon which I construct every painting; foreground, horizon and sky. With these as a constant, I can explore colour, texture, pattern and shape to create an atmosphere and mood.

There are unlimited possibilities for me to explore in these paintings, both in terms of the fundamental elements of artistic expression, and of places and experiences from which to draw.

Materials used:

Oil on birch panel

Tags:
#landscape #beach #clouds #romantic #stripes #landscape painting #cottage chic #cottage #interior decor #canadian art 

The Afternoon Before We Left (2021)

Oil painting 
by John Ford

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I’ve been working with the image of a single cloud looming on the horizon for a long time. It speaks to me as a simplified, graphic, iconic representation of landscape – it could be any place, yet a very specific and special place all at once. I take much inspiration from the memories and experiences of travel.

I don’t really paint scenes, I paint the experience and memory that I return with after having been somewhere, hence the basic compositional foundation upon which I construct every painting; foreground, horizon and sky. With these as a constant, I can explore colour, texture, pattern and shape to create an atmosphere and mood.

There are unlimited possibilities for me to explore in these paintings, both in terms of the fundamental elements of artistic expression, and of places and experiences from which to draw.

Materials used:

Oil on birch panel

Tags:
#landscape #beach #clouds #romantic #stripes #landscape painting #cottage chic #cottage #interior decor #canadian art 
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I’ve been making art all my life. I’ve also done other things, by necessity, passion and circumstance. I need to make things - sculptures, drawings, paintings; abstract and representational -... Read more

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