COREY DANIELS    JOHN DUCKWORTH    EMILY GOMEZ    PAUL HAGEDORN    SUSAN HARBAGE PAGE    ANDREA ROJAS

JOHN DUCKWORTH

Born in San Diego, California, currently lives and works in John's Island, South Carolina, B.A. College of Charleston

Walking the line between realism and abstraction, artist John Duckworth infuses his paintings, photographs, and films with a passion for pure color, an intimate knowledge of nature, and a rhythm drawn from life itself. Duckworth explores his varying influences and directions simultaneously through several interrelated series. Together they reveal his continuing dialogue between place and process.

Like paintings from a camera, the Landscape Abstracts series features gently blurred photographs that evoke the essence of sea, forest, marsh, and sky in bands of infinitely serene colors.  These same meditative moments are captured in a polar opposite environment in the Urban Journey series, with loose references to the streets of the bustling cities in which they were taken. Pushing this aesthetic even further is the Myopic series in which all references to place are removed, leaving only a shimmering dance of circles. Duckworth approaches these series much like a plein aire painter. The meditative photographs are left in their original state as shot on location in a process Duckworth has perfected.