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 paintings often explore themes of memory, mood, and the ephemeral nature of lived experience, drawing inspiration from the natural world to evoke a deep sense of place and time. His work focuses on the fleeting quality of moments, using the landscape not as a literal subject but as a catalyst for emotional reflection.
Using a process-driven approach, Adam builds up dense layers of hues and textures to create a meditative and resonant abstraction. This method allows for a physical manifestation of time on the canvas, where each layer represents a shifting state of consciousness or a fading recollection. The resulting surfaces invite the viewer into a contemplative space, balancing the raw energy of the natural environment with a quiet, internal resonance.
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.