Known for a distinctive visual vocabulary made of broad brush-strokes saturated by technicolour palettes, Ward’s paintings recall the psychedelic design of 1960s vinyl records. Formally, his landscape paintings depict pre-historical and futuristic deserts that mix styles and narratives whose conventions are partly inherited from Asian Master paintings…
Landscape’ seems almost too tame a term to describe Christian Ward’s eye-grabbingly vivid paintings where Technicolor mountains, caverns and grottoes shimmer with rainbows, cascade with multicoloured waterfalls and are wreathed in iridescent mist…