There is a simple connection between the marks of Gordon Onslow Ford, my marks and Zen brushwork. They all "express the state of good fortune of being alive” as GOF put it. There is an underlying joy that bubbles through. That was the attractor for me coming here. It is rare for art these days to celebrate this joy — a kind of unreasonable joy in a way, knowing our own points of pain, those of others and of the world out there. But still there at base when everything else drops away. A serious joy, which is at the same time light and buoyant and playful.
And all this is connected with and informed by Zen meditation and koan practice.