Artist: Harold Mockford
Title: Martelllo Tower, Seaford                         
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 16 x 16”
Price: £640

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Harold Mockford’s landscapes take us through the ordinary into the extraordinary by his use of colour and motif. His shapes and forms of trees, the Downs dotted with farmscapes and lanes and animals are familiar but his use of colour moves us into a very different world where the natural order is taken and shaken into another reality and makes us look at those rolling hills of Sussex by the Sea in an entirely different way – he endows his landscapes with a deep mysticism. His paintings look to liberate the dormant awe, fear and gratitude that for thousands of years have formed our relationship with land, sea and sky, with the sun and the moon, those harbingers of much greater realities that as modern beings we have grown accustomed to dismiss or deny. His work makes our secondary, sophisticated world a little less meaningful where even inanimate objects from roads to telegraph poles are animated with a spiritual significance.