Meet us! This is the British artist John Forman, famous for his paintings. He is one of the brightest and most extraordinary representatives of the land art movement.
This movement originated in the USA in the seventies of the twentieth century. Land art (land art – land and art – translation from English) is distinguished by the inextricable connection of the work created by the artist with the natural landscape.
While still in college, Forman discovered this direction and immediately fell in love with it. And now, walking along the smooth sandy beaches, he does not miss the opportunity to decorate them. The artist creates the most interesting compositions from multi-colored stones, demonstrating truly bizarre designs: narrow spirals, graceful crescents, stars, flowers, abstract patterns, underground passages and hills. Fans often ask Foreman whether he feels sorry for his work. After all, they are so short-lived. Yes, indeed, stones eventually disappear – sooner or later they are carried away by the tides. But this is the key idea of Forman’s creative process – to show the fleeting, illusory, illusory quality of his installations.
Moreover, the author does not experience a shortage of materials for his natural paintings. The artist lives in Pembrokeshire (Wales). And everything he needs lies around. You just need to reach with your hand.
For each work, a special set of stones is used, differing in size and color. Some compositions include materials of different diameters and a whole rainbow of pastel shades. Others contain stones of the same or similar color and size. Forman carefully considers the choice of materials and their placement. In this way, the master creates real patterned streams flowing along the banks.
By the way, the author creates not only from stones. In his works he also uses other natural materials: foliage, shells, earth, sand, mushrooms, water, moss, trees.
However, as Foreman himself states, stone is his favorite material. After all, it opens up a lot of unique opportunities for the master, ways to create, showing his most unexpected qualities.
The artist’s works were exhibited from 2015 to 2018. at festivals and shows in South Korea, Great Britain, USA.
Reproductions of Foreman’s works are available for sale. Orders can be placed through the artist’s website. And for those who want to keep up with Foreman’s latest works, we advise you to follow him on Instagram.
