Jon MacAdam

Gallery showing of Jon MacAdam's work

Artist Jonathan MacAdam was born in England. His recent work concentrates He concentrated on the relationship of differing skies to the landscape and architectural buildings below.

Jonathan MacAdam received a BA in Fine Arts from Gordon College in Wenham, MA. He lived in Orvieto, Italy for five months where he continued his art studies in the Italian Renaissance. Jonathan is a painter and teacher on the North Shore and maintains his studio in Beverly Farms, MA.

Artist's statement:
In my work I tend toward simplifying forms into broad areas of color. Close value areas next to one another interest me. I am happy to show the traces of the brush stoke. The lines in my paintings tend to be playful. Most of my paintings are done from the memory of a place. Sometimes I use a photograph or drawing as a starting place, and then I start to paint what I feel. When stepping back from the work, it appears to be very realistic, and then when the viewer gets closer the painting, it becomes mysterious, broken down into areas of color.