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Robert Ford
United Kingdom
Artist highlights
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 23.5x27.5in
About this artwork
I work in oil and mixed-media painting, building layered canvases that combine painted surfaces, drawn marks, and occasional collage elements.
My work explores the dynamics of constraint and release—how obligations, histories, and intimate ties shape the body and the self. Recurring motifs such as chains, keys, and distorted figures serve as visual metaphors for care, coercion, and the ambiguous possibilities that connect them. I am drawn to the… tension that exists when an object or gesture is simultaneously familiar and unsettling; the paintings present that tension rather than resolve it.
Influenced by Surrealist imagery, expressionist figuration, and vernacular narrative, I aim to render psychological states as tangible, relational situations. I want viewers to encounter scenes that convey social and emotional architectures—how people hold one another, how signs of freedom and captivity coexist, how small gestures carry weight.
My work explores the dynamics of constraint and release—how obligations, histories, and intimate ties shape the body and the self. Recurring motifs such as chains, keys, and distorted figures serve as visual metaphors for care, coercion, and the ambiguous possibilities that connect them. I am drawn to the… tension that exists when an object or gesture is simultaneously familiar and unsettling; the paintings present that tension rather than resolve it.
Influenced by Surrealist imagery, expressionist figuration, and vernacular narrative, I aim to render psychological states as tangible, relational situations. I want viewers to encounter scenes that convey social and emotional architectures—how people hold one another, how signs of freedom and captivity coexist, how small gestures carry weight.
Robert Ford
United Kingdom
Credentials
- Works on commission
I am a seasoned painter with an MA in Fine Art from UAL London, primarily uses oil on canvas and heavy art paper, enriched by decades of experience as a creative in the London advertising world. His work employs narrative-driven imagery with social and political undertones, characterised by humour, irony, ambiguity, and quiet visual tension rather than overt statements. My art invites viewers into open-ended interpretation, conveying a blend of subtle wit and reflective ambiguity, encouraging emotional discovery and personal resonance.
A lifelong commitment to Art, I spent 6 formative years in formal art training in the 1960's, laying the foundation for a lifetime of visual storytelling. . 45 years in advertising as an artist, followed by an MA in Fine Art Printmaking, at Camberwell School of Art, refining my art practice, graduating 2009. 10 years devoted to developing my painting, until I was satisfied as to the standard of my work-born of discipline & purpose. It
A lifelong commitment to Art, I spent 6 formative years in formal art training in the 1960's, laying the foundation for a lifetime of visual storytelling. . 45 years in advertising as an artist, followed by an MA in Fine Art Printmaking, at Camberwell School of Art, refining my art practice, graduating 2009. 10 years devoted to developing my painting, until I was satisfied as to the standard of my work-born of discipline & purpose. It
Robert Ford
THE KEY TO CHAINS
$15,100
