john F. ross

inpassage

may 6th - May 30th 2023

Opening reception on may 6, 2023

2-6pm

the artist will attend

The Story of “INPASSAGE”

There was a small, stepped turn of the path a mile or so south of Whitechurch on the Welsh coast we walked the day before Christmas, rising out of a narrow glen onto the wind-swept machair. As we emerged from the glen, a flock of sea birds took flight from amongst the tall grasses eastward toward the Pembrokeshire coast. The path had a quality about it, as the best paths do, that would lead one to believe it had always been there, just as it was, timeless, before people, trod by bevys of roe deer making their passage inland.  

I've thought often about the curious timelessness paths have. Invitations to a narrowly focussed communion with an environment, like well crafted art, having neither a beginning nor an end. That day it might have been the Christmas season that made me feel keenly aware of the passage of time, or perhaps it was a prevailing sense of wildness there that didn't distinguish between the path and the ground on which it was laid; a sort of oneness that can be felt when a sea breeze, flocking birds and a particular turn in a path collaborate to tell a story. A story of passage, of change, of relationship, of hardship and beauty.  

 ~John F. Ross~

Artist Biography

John F. Ross (b. 1984, Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian painter creating contemporary works charged with personal and existential narratives. A graduate of Studio Art from York University, John has been exhibiting his work since 2006 in Ontario and Alberta and can be found in private collections across Canada and Europe. John lives and works in Calgary.