Jon Adam
A widely respected artist who has exhibited in galleries in New York, London and across the UK since the early 90’s. His distinctive oil paintings express an emotional interpretation and abstraction of the natural world around him, using hand ground pigments to maximise depth and luminosity and intensify the emotive response.
Jon Adam’s unique style of painting has evolved over the many years he has worked with paint, influenced by the nature and light that surrounded him when growing up on an isolated private country estate in Cornwall. This had a profound effect on his identity and was the stimulus for his creativity.
His relationship with the paint has always fascinated him, feeling that the transition from thought and emotion to the application of paint on canvas is critical and magical.
Working with the surface and an evocative use of colour to build depth, Adam creates his own world of emotional internalised landscapes.
Medium
paint
I prefer oil paint as the medium for my paintings, the vibrant colours of the oil paints are achieved by making most of the oil paint by hand, grinding the pigment with cold pressed linseed oil as a medium.
colour
This provides the clarity for good colour refraction giving strength and intensity to the colours. Most of the pigments are supplied by L. Cornelissen & Son of London. If not hand ground in the studio high quality oil paints are sourced from colourist and paint manufacturer Michael Harding.
surface
For the surface Belgian Linen or Cotton Duct is professionally stretched over a hardwood stretcher frame to a museum quality. It is then primed with high quality primer that consists of china clay, titanium white and alkyd resins this forms a very stable permanent and flexible ground for the oil paints.