Gordon Onslow Ford

 

The primary purpose of life is to achieve a growth of consciousness. It follows that the principle aim of art is to see the world anew. . . The profound preoccupations that inspired

 Modern Art during the early part of the last century are now once again, for more and more people, coming back but they are finding expression in deeper levels of consciousness. . .

Modern Art, with its deep insights from the Open Mind, as far as the general public was concerned, went underground, where it has remained until recently, when the present world conditions demand, on pain of human extinction, a new attitude towards the world, a deeper respect for interdependence of humankind with nature which implies the need for a deeper way of seeing the world in which we live. . . In the paintings of Inner Realism, aspects of the invisible become visible. . . Inner Realism is the quest of the Inner Worlds of the conscious Mind Shared By All. . . Inner Realism happens through spontaneous painting. . . Every pioneer painter, through spontaneous painting, has a chance to make a unique contribution."

Gordon Onslow Ford, November 2000