Ian worked as a civil engineer until 1989 when he left to study art and started to paint full time. In 1994 he moved with his wife from Eastbourne to a smallholding in the Sussex High Weald. This move reflected a shift in his painting as he began to explore his personal and artistic preoccupations through the medium of landscape.

Passionate about environmental issues and fascinated by archaeology, he seeks to understand the impact that humans have on their environment. Exploring the tension between man and nature, his work draws out the peculiar dynamic of a landscape formed by human activity that is constantly being repossessed by the implacable forces of nature. The creative process by which the paintings evolve - applying layer upon layer of paint, then scraping back, then re-layering - echoes the process by which the landscape itself is being formed.

Ian’s paintings are after rather than from nature between real and imagined. Exploring the realm between abstract and figurative, they are images of a world that lies visibly about us but remains unseen – obscured by the hurly burly of present day living.

Ian’s work can also be viewed at his online studio: www.aarthaus.co.uk/ioh.html

He has work in a number of private collections.

How to contact us:

Ian & Liz O'Halloran
Merryweather's Herbs,
Merryweather's Farm
Chilsham Lane, Herstmonceux
East Sussex
BN27 4QH

Tel 01323 831726 Email: info@morethanjustagarden.co.uk