Tom Ormond

Tom Ormond’s paintings carefully select idealized English landscapes and inject a sense of the surreal or fantastical into them. Nostalgia pervades many of his canvases in which the vision for a better life is articulated. Recently, Ormond has expanded his practice to include etching. In his own words, “Faced with myriad possibilities, each choice, decision and color has the potential to take the doodler-sketcher-planner, and their ad hoc shelter-come-planet, to a new realm. One color may suggest a specific medium implying particular associations, another may draw out aspects of the structure’s Heath Robinson make-up, and propel it into a certain timeframe or genre.”

Ormond’s recent shows include Gone Tomorrow, Gone Tomorrow Gallery, London, MLP Offices, London, Cell Project Space, London, Serpentine Gallery, London, George Polke Gallery, London, Fieldgate Gallery, London, and Alison Jacques Gallery, London. In 1998 he completed an internship in the curatorial departments of Film and Video, and Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. 

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