Doug Ford
Artist Painter, Muralist and visual surrealist.
Each artwork its has a place, Its the artist way,(self endulgent) I am fortunate this endulgence has provided continuous work for 20+years.
I don't care too much about Gallery's as long as i can hang the new series on a wall, I figure prices and reputations are the hype that enable curators to eat. I am waiting for an invitation I guess.
imagination to think freely and paint without reference
My Social outgoing nature, capturing peoples likeness movement from small to large scales.
Public artwork, I have painted live at certain festivals i have an ability to capture scenes quickly and confidently, to observe and paint.
Murals, Large works, Light and colours and scale are instinctive. I have painted 100's of murals in Wgtn, Ak, Aussi, Europe and the US.
Sketches and penwork. Traveled places and people, political satire.
Artworks, My emotive nature in a surealist style.
Nature our native birds, bush. i understand physics of things thus i am free to put these (birds) into any position.
I paint like a carving, shapes emerge from my brush and my own recollection provide the imagery. This is where my process has evolved to. I do observational paintings but wish i did more,,,imagination to think freely and paint without reference
21 years of Murals and exhibitions, and the standard education artists seem to share.
Art & history through the eyes of artists.
The Inspirational murals and to stand in front of the great master of art, It was an arts education I cherish.
To study Europe’s walls, To see the murals and feel the age and weight of light each city had.
That was my European mural trail. Florence has my fresco, a Maria church in Augsburg,Edinborough it was winter, they got lots. Czech too. A New York hotel has a web link...
As an Artist, I have lived off my prodgeny, Sketches,Paintings and Murals, Pavement art.
Bursary Art, Visual communications and Design.
Artist in residence, Chelsea Nyc.
A.I.R, Aurere College, Albany junior high school
mural projects, schools and public art projects. Art exhibitions. Films murals to a stint in background amimation..
Recent projects, South Auckland electicity boxes with my team of seven artist to add life (urban birds and animals) to Beautify the Hunters corner area.
Albany junior high school, artist in schools program. Aorere college mural project, Gateway project With School Leavers developing skills and understanding business approaches. Rosen bank rd Primary school Mairaingi Bay and Glen Eden Primary Schools,
Community Murals
2009 interactive mural for the (reef) refugee education centre, Selwyn College
2008 Murals Orakie paint by colours, 2005 TinTacs reserve Onehunga 2001 Otahuhu Bus depot with 9 different schools and daycare centres.2000 Khandallah pool paint by numbers 1994-5 Kaorori residents paint by numbers mural.
Stardome Mural, Grafton Bridge, Adopt a box Traffic boxes art projects,
A church dedicated to Mother Mary in Augsburg Germany.
Unlike most depictions of mother Mary she enges the patrons with her gaze, Partly to do with a atheist upbringing and relating to this young mother as a sixteen year old unwed mom happy with her boy yet defiant to judgements.
Ode to the Malborough sounds mural, 6th months on a scaffold on the old hutt rd in wellington.
1994 First sold out show at the delux cafe in wgtn, Nudes in Pastel.
2002 Second sold out show in parnell, Artigiano "parks and Beaches"
2003 Artists Gallery Exhibition,Chealsea NYC.
Artist in schools program fun to share my skills with the next generation,
Paint by Colours projects, its a undefinable feeling recieved from the public involvement their personal thankyous and magicl colour choices.
2007 Creating a gallery at Aotea Squre market for 6 months because a curator said artist don't do this.
2007 Wall Gallery, " anti war show", my useless attempt to stop bushy boy from f*cking up the world.
Managing to live off art and have exhibitions where ever i have been in the world. Cafe to galleries I like to share my work its part of the performance.
The result is a large body of work is with friends and buyers in Europe Us and Nz.
Albany Buzz and other associated local papers,
Augsburg Scene.1996 Augsburg germany, " when the bearded lady was a man".
Artist Alliance Magazine, North and South, metro city mix,
The evening post 1993,
Marie Bates Aorere college,Stacy Yates Albany junior high school,
Auckland city council, Waitakerie city council, Various wall owners,
(671 gt north rd) (Grey Lynn. Auckland) (09) 361 2014) sford1us@yahoo.com
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Doug Fordcoffe and cigerettes
A painter and visualist, Mural Canvas and often anything that has a paintable surface.
Art is my soul food, it keeps me going.
My murals have too much reference and research to be decorative, These are an exploration of techniques, who wants to be bored with a new wall to paint, so its testing yourself and pushing the limits of public acceptance, possibly a bit of mockery but with humour I hope.
