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Ford P R McLain

Artist directory :: Ford P R McLain

2021, mixed media on wood (20" x 72")

Breakfast At The Edge Of Enlightenment

Paintings for Our Time

Paintings created during the period of the Covid-19 Pandemic (April 2020 - October 2022)

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Ford P. R. McLain 
Ford P. R. McLain is a primitive-abstract painter living in Albany, New York. He is both a descendent of Italian immigrants and a son of the American Revolution. His influences include Paul Gauguin (his gateway painter), painters of the New York School of the 1940s and 1950s (Gorky, deKooning, Frankenthaler, Pollock, Mitchell, Kline, et al.), jazz musicians Charles Mingus and Miles Davis, playwright Sam Shepard, and filmmakers David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick. He began as a primitive painter, but in late 2013 McLain moved into abstract painting. Many of McLain’s paintings contain themes of spiritual liberation through the nexus of creativity and sexuality, as well as the collaboration between a painter and his muses. McLain’s main approach to a...

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Albany, NY
United States

Galleries

The Fog of Love This series may take a while. Enjoy.
Paradossi - A Painting In Progress This painting was created between late October and mid-November 2023
Ink Paintings Made with a Japanese ink stone and calligraphy brushes.
The Language of Psycho-Analysis Paintings inspired by titles of a book of the same name.
Darkness Visible New Paintings, using squeegee and other implements, starting in Spring 2023. Title inspired by William Styron's memoir of madness.
Studies for the Soul New Paintings of a Spiritual Nature, starting in late 2022, inspired by contemplations and meditations on art and the soul.
Photographs Photographs Taken With A New Camera - All Black and White
The Crimson Muse Paintings and other work inspired by my Crimson Muse.
Coffee Time! Paintings about Metaphysics
Soul Trip A series of paintings about a road trip of sorts.
The Red Series Painted in the summer of 2017, using oils and mixed media, this is a new direction for my primitive abstract art.
Nuova Musa, Nuove Visioni Una nuova galleria dedicata di gratitudine verso una nuova ispirazione artistica.

Blog

Painting and Oreos
Today is a painting day...and Lou Reed's birthday. And it will be rainy. Trifecta!

With the latest
With my latest, "Eoni", on 2/15/24

It IS good to be the painter.
Tattoo and art by Skyler Sager at Purgatory Tattoo Company. She can be found on Instagram.

It IS good to be the painter.
Tattoo and art by Skyler Sager at Purgatory Tattoo Company.

New Canvas, Pt. 2
The painter's equivalent of the white sheet of paper.

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