James Forwood

Background

Born in 1969, I have been painting as long as i can remember. From the countryside, my first home was called the hermitage! It was paradise, there were no sraight lines in any direction for as far as the eye could see. My interest in painting as a direct response to nature was instinctual. I was surrounded by the natural cycles of the seasons from birth to death and then to repeat itself again. I am self-taught and drawing and painting are as natural as breathing to me. Realizing from a young age that each moment is potential and potential is creation. I particularly use nature as a guide to the feelings i wish to express, i am most comfortable standing in a field in the middle of winter just to experience the seeming motion of time as it ever unfolds at every given second, just to have the privelege to at least try to capture something that is different for all of us yet at the same time common. I strive to experience a seeming paradox that is both complimentary and contradictory and in some way make a mark of that. My golden rule is to always be simple in whatever it is i am doing; as each moment passes each mark can lead to a myriad of possibilities, it is these endless possibilities that make it such a joy to paint. I love the work i do as it represents in some measure my own journey in an uncertain world.

Description

Landscape Artist