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HERMINE FORD
For decades, painter Hermine Ford has pursued an art practice steeped in grace.
As a painter, Hermine Ford’s practice is guided by a belief in continuity beneath rhythms of change. Whether inspired by the shifting sand dunes of Provincetown or the fractured mosaics of Ancient Rome, her art is all about what is now and always—past and present co-mingling, grace abiding. —Peter Bruun
“All we are, all we see, is nature…”
Untitled (246-75), Hermine Ford, 1975, 32.5” x 104.5”, oil on canvas
“Things grow. Or are made. Maybe by a human being, maybe by a bird or a bee. We make objects of all sizes, buildings, art. Then they get old, sometimes are torn down, even made to disappear, by water, wind, volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, or fire…” Untitled (220-09)
Hermine Ford
2009, 75.5” x 46.5” x 0.75″, oil paint, ink, watercolor, gouache, pencil and colored pencil on canvas on shaped wood panel
Untitled (220-09)
Hermine Ford
2009, 75.5” x 46.5” x 0.75″, oil paint, ink, watercolor, gouache, pencil and colored pencil on canvas on shaped wood panel
“Or they fall down from their own weight, or are pushed over, stepped on, shot at, blown up, smashed. Yet, the pure material remains…” Untitled (369-17)
Hermine Ford
2017, 22” x 30”, ink, watercolor, gouache, pencil, and colored pencil on paper
Untitled (369-17)
Hermine Ford
2017, 22” x 30”, ink, watercolor, gouache, pencil, and colored pencil on paper
“The materials are reused down through the ages. Architecture and painting and sculpture are made from these raw and recycled materials…” La Nuvoletta
Hermine Ford
2013, 17.25“x 23.75” x 0.75”, oil paint on cotton muslin on shaped panel
La Nuvoletta
Hermine Ford
2013, 17.25“x 23.75” x 0.75”, oil paint on cotton muslin on shaped panel
“An artist’s eye and hand moves over the materials while at the beach, or visiting an Italian city, or in the studio, remembers them as they used to be and rearranges them: the broken buildings, the stones, the tiles, the pigments…” Green Flash (400-2020)
Hermine Ford
2020, 54” x 41.5” x 0.75”, oil paint, graphite, colored pencil on muslin on shaped wood panel
Green Flash (400-2020)
Hermine Ford
2020, 54” x 41.5” x 0.75”, oil paint, graphite, colored pencil on muslin on shaped wood panel
“In my work I’m re-imagining the past, making it present.” —Hermine Ford
Spring Forward (414-2021)
Hermine Ford
2021, 47” x 45” x 0.75”, oil paint, graphite, colored pencil on muslin on shaped wood panel
Spring Forward (414-2021)
Hermine Ford
2021, 47” x 45” x 0.75”, oil paint, graphite, colored pencil on muslin on shaped wood panel
“The need to work at least a few hours several days a week is so powerful that I have asked myself why. The answer I’ve come up with is that it’s the one thing that integrates my whole self, where the self disappears, and becomes almost like a prayer. Is this ‘grace’? Perhaps.” —Hermine Ford
