Original Art & Photography at Mayfly Wood

ORIGINAL ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

The Mayfly Wood Collection

STEPHEN ORMANDY

“Polychromatism. The art of Stephen Ormandy” directed by Mario Sanasi takes us into Stephen Ormandy’s studio and gives us direct insight into his work, process and techniques.

Photographic collages form the basis for many of Ormandy’s works – “I cut shapes from coloured pieces of paper – I arrange them looking for rhythms of tone, colour, form. I then photograph it and move on and I can work very quickly and it allows me to take a lot of photographs in a very intense period of time”. Similarly his sculpture also stems from the notion of collage. Ormandy’s sculptures are essentially 3D collages formed from an “alphabet of shapes”.

Discussing what it is to be an artist, Ormandy says, “To be able to self edit and be self critical is crucial [...] You have to be your worst critic – it’s really important.”

“My work is born of the subconscious mind. I’m looking for vibration and rhythm, the play of line creating positive and negative space, searching for tonal balance through contrast or harmony, while developing chroma relationships that hug or repel.”

- Stephen Ormandy

Tribute, 2021

oil on linen 2x3m

The Passenger, 2018 oil on linen 59 7/8 x 48 inches

TRAVIS WALKER

Travis Walker was born in Tokyo, Japan, an Air Force brat whose nomadic childhood was filled with comic books, science fiction, and drawing. After graduating with a degree in Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University, the allure of the western lands cape drew him to the valley of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he has lived and worked for nearly 20 years, blending contemporary landscape painting with the fictional worlds of his past.

Travis Walker’s work can be found at Altamira Fine Art in Jackson, Wyoming and Scottsdale, Arizona; Visions West Contemporary in Montana and Denver, Colorado; and The Art Spirit Gallery in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho. He has been featured in SouthWest Art Magazine, Big Sky Journal, Mountain Living, Forbes, and The Guardian. He is the founder of the nonprofit Teton Artlab, an Artist In Residence program bas ed in Jackson Hole.

Backyard Bather

A Lone Cowgirl

MIMI JUNG

Mimi Jung’s work examines multiple dimensions of self-preservation, particularly as it relates to private and public self-repre sentation, and the ways in which those depictions are manifest through social and cultural mores. Her constructed forms, with their voids and translucencies, are fixed but never static; the viewer actively controls the experience of transit around and through them—reflecting inward on their own behaviors. In the end, Jung’s limning of space is reflexive, visible to those who are predisposed to see it.

Mimi Jung received a BFA from Cooper Union and attended HGK Basel and Städelschule for postgraduate studies. She has mounted ex hibitions throughout the United States including Nina Johnson gallery, Helen J gallery and Pentimenti Gallery. Her work has also been ex hibited at Les Gens Heureux in Copenhagen, KIAF in South Korea, Collectible in Brussels, Somerset House in London and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.

CAST A SHIELD

CRYSTAL DiPIETRO

“I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. Solitude is indispensible for my dialogue with nature.”- Caspar David Friedrich

Crystal DiPietro spent much time as a child exploring and hiking in the mountains and rural areas of central Pennsylvania where she grew up. Even as a child, she found great joy in sketching and making elaborate drawings of the places she visited.

She gave up the rural life and moved to Washington, DC in 1988 to attend the Corcoran School of Art (now the Corcoran College of Art and Design at George Washington University). While there, she studied drawing and painting, earning a BFA in 1992.

After numerous visits to the west over the years, Crystal fell in love with the desert and open spaces. She finally moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2004. Ever since then, she has spent as much time as possible making solo treks into the desert and mountain backcountry and sharing these experiences through her art. She is enthralled with the colors, light and textures found in the Wilderness and works to capture the many moods of the western landscape.

The Path Trails Off & Heads Down a Mountain (I Don’t Know Where It Leads & I Don’t Really Care)

While on a trip to the Tushar Mountains in Utah, I decided to go hiking on a whim. I had no idea what to expect, and it turned out to be an absolutely delightful and beautiful day.

BILLY SCHENCK

Billy Schenck is a contemporary artist with work in over 40 museum collections and corporate collections that include Sony, IBM, Saatchi and Saatchi, American Airlines and others. His subject matter spans genres from western landscape to cowboy pop. He has been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. He is a World Champion Ranch Sorting winner and the proprietor of the Double Standard Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his home for the past two decades.

ALEXANDER LINDSAY

Alexander Lindsay creates photographic landscapes of extraordinary honesty and beauty. He has developed his own system to capture wilderness regions of the world at and beyond the edges of human influence. Alexander prints his ultra-high resolution images on an epic scale, and his limited edition prints are available for purchase. He also works on specific commissions for corporate clients and private collectors.

For the past 40 years, Alexander has brought his film and stills cameras to some of the most extreme situations and environments on the planet. From his earliest experiences living with the Maasai tribe, a five year spell within Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation, his extensive travels within Iraq during both Gulf Wars and his expeditions to film and photograph the wreck of the Titanic 4km beneath the ocean’s waves, Alexander has always sought to immerse himself in situations where, as he explains, ‘the imagination is rendered unnecessary’.

A new chapter was initiated in 2013 in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, the starting point for a photographic overland odyssey of 25,000 miles that took him and his team into the Bolivian Salt Flats, the rainforests of Central Chile and down through Patagonia to the very extreme of the Continent at Cape Horn.

The brutally pure, minimalist photographs produced on this trip, in intense solitude, began Lindsay’s exploration of the ‘sublime’ through still photography. These photographs can seduce by their beauty and detail, but behind these images the very antithesis of what modern life is about is laid out in huge and savage focus. One photographer transports you as a voyager to a world without man, far from the self absorption we are so often consumed by in our modern world.

Alexander’s lifelong project is to continually further our appreciation and comprehension of what is possible in photographic landscape art.

His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Rencontres in Arles, France (2014) and Christie’s London (2019), and he has had major solo shows in Aspen, Colorado USA (2014), Kings Place Piano Nobile, London (2015), Carter Lane Gallery, London (2017), The Vineyard, Cape Town (2019), Jackson, Wyoming USA (2019), Messums Wiltshire Uk (2020), Messums Harrogate (2021) and Bowhouse, Fife, Scotland (2022). His current exhibition, Scotland - The Light I saw, is showing at Stephen Ongpin Fine Art until 26 February 2023. See Exhibitions page for more details. His prints are included in major private and corporate collections in the US, UK and Europe.

Portrait of Alexander Lindsay on shoot in Bolivia.

Alpenglow Over the Tetons

Detail from ‘Alpenglow Over the Tetons’

Hanging Canyon

TERRY O’NEILL

Terry O’Neill, CBE, is one of the world’s most collected photographers with work hanging in national art galleries and private collections worldwide. From presidents to pop stars he has photographed the frontline of fame for more than six decades.

O’Neill began his career at the birth of the 1960s. While other photographers concentrated on earthquakes, wars and politics, O’Neill realised that youth culture was a breaking news story on a global scale and began chronicling the emerging faces of film, fashion and music who would go on to define the Swinging Sixties. By 1965 he was being commissioned by the biggest magazines and newspapers in the world.

No other living photographer has embraced the span of fame, capturing the icons of our age from Winston Churchill to Nelson Mandela, from Frank Sinatra and Elvis to Amy Winehouse, from Audrey Hepburn and Brigitte Bardot to Kate Moss, as well as almost every James Bond from Sean Connery to Daniel Craig.

He photographed The Beatles and The Rolling Stones when they were still struggling young bands in 1963, pioneered backstage reportage photography with David Bowie, Elton John, The Who, Eric Clapton and Chuck Berry and his images have adorned historic rock albums, movie posters and international magazine covers.

O’Neill’s work can be found in such museums as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Terry O’Neill passed away in November 2019.

O’Neill was awarded a CBE for services to photography in this year’s Queen’s birthday honours. He said it was “a huge honour. And I’m incredibly humbled by it. It’s a real recognition for the art of photography, as well. This isn’t just for me of course, it’s for everyone who has helped me along the way. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart”

Brigitte Bardot, Spain, 1971

French actress Brigitte Bardot on the set of ‘Les Petroleuses’ a.k.a. ‘The Legend of Frenchie King’, directed by ChristianJaque in Spain, 1971.

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JASON KOWALSKI

I think people are starting to crave a technology free cognitive experience. Paintings offer that to a viewer, so they will always be treasured and collected. An original creation is valuable beyond measure.

I am interested in objects that have a past. Their story is often forgotten and their characteristics of being worn out, broken and old are commonly seen as unattractive. I value nostalgia and believe that every antique has a fascinating story. Preservation does not always equal restoration. To honor the stories of the past, I paint places/objects as they exist in the world today.

Hidden in my paintings are mixed media clippings. Some of clippings include, heirloom postcards, handwritten notes from the pa st, vintage photographs, graphic stamps and script from advertising catalogs. This ephemera concealed in my work is not solely to provide a narrative l ink to the past; the mixed media scraps act as a partner to my brush stroke. They are placed as design elements and are crafted with considerable importance in to the composition. There is beauty in the undone, the abandon, and in the shadows of a greatness that once was.

Vintage West

ANDREW MOORE

American photographer Andrew Moore (born 1957) is widely acclaimed for his photographic series, usually taken over many years, which record the effect of time on the natural and built landscape. These series include work made in Cuba, Russia, Bosnia, Times Square, Detroit, The Gre at Plains, and most recently, the American South.

Moore’s photographs are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Nati onal Gallery of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Library of Congress amongst m any other institutions. He has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2014, and has as well been award grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the J M Kaplan Fund.

His most recent book, Blue Alabama, with a preface by Imani Perry and story by Madison Smartt Bell was released in the fall of 2019. His previous work on the lands and people along the 100th Meridian in the US, called Dirt Meridian, has a preface by Kent Haruf and was exhibited at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha. An earlier book, the bestselling Detroit Disassembled, included an essay by the late Poet Laureate Philip Levine, and an exhibitio n of the same title opened at the Akron Museum of Art before also traveling to the Queens Museum of Art, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the National Building M useum in Washington, DC.

Moore’s other books include: Inside Havana (2002), Governors Island (2004) and Russia, Beyond Utopia (2005) and Cuba (2012). Ad ditionally, his photographs have appeared in Art in America, Artnews, The Bitter Southerner, Harpers, National Geographic, New York Review of Books, The Ne w York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, TIME, Vogue and Wired.

Moore produced and photographed “How to Draw a Bunny,” a pop art mystery feature film on the artist Ray Johnson. The movie prem iered at the 2002 Sundance Festival, where it won a Special Jury prize.

Mr. Moore was a lecturer on photography in the Visual Arts Program at Princeton University from 2001 to 2010. Presently he teac hes a graduate seminar in the MFA Photography Video and Related Media program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Pronghorns, Niobrara County, WY

TED WILLIAMS

Ted Williams (1925-2009) first heard jazz on the radio as a youngster in the 1930s in Wichita, Kansas. The sounds of Earl Hines, Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway broadcasted from Chicago’s legendary Grand Terrace Ballroom inspired him, and in the late 1940s, Williams merged his love of music and photography. He moved to Chicago, where he captured unguarded photographic studies of some of the era’s greatest jazz musicians.

On June 21, 1964, he participated in one of the largest peaceful protests in American history, capturing on film a pivotal moment in the fight for racial equality: Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at the Illinois Rally for Civil Rights.

His work appeared in major international publications including Time, Newsweek, Look, Playboy and Ebony. His coverage of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival landed him a spectacular 21-page layout in Down Beat magazine. Williams was active on the jazz scene from the late 1940s until the late 1970s. He photographed many of the greats in jazz, including Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong. Williams’ historic archive runs to more than 100,000 images and comprises perhaps the most intimate and complete collection of Jazz’s greatest musicians at work, rest and play.

MLK - Rally for Civil Rights’

Dr. Martin Luther King makes a speech at the ‘Illinois Rally for Civil Rights’ at Soldier Field in Chicago, IL, US, June 21, 1964. The same day of the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

HERMES

Since 1837, Hermès has remained faithful to its artisanal model and its humanist values. The freedom to create, the constant quest for beautiful materials, and the transmission of exceptional know-how – which enable the creation of useful, and elegant objects which stand the test of time – forge the uniqueness of Hermès.

Family-run, independent and socially responsible, the company is committed to maintaining the majority of its production in France, through its 52 production sites, while developing its international distribution network of 300 stores in 45 countries.

For six generations, Hermès has been an independent, family-owned French house, artisanal, creative, innovative and responsible, whose entrepreneurial spirit has become its business model.

The sixteen métiers of the house create collections that combine freedom with inventiveness and know-how. The objects are designed to be durable and to adapt to changing lifestyles.

Humanist values, based in the artisanal world, guide the company in its development: Hermès is committed to preserving resources, supporting the regions in which its manufactures operate and ensuring the transmission of exceptional know-how.

The house has a network of over 300 stores across 45 countries, each of which is a welcoming and unique “house of objects” that combines the identity of Hermès with the local culture, offering visitors an exceptional experience.

Since 1837, generation after generation, Herm ès has followed a dual thread - on the one hand the painstaking work of the craftstman in his workshop, and on the other the lifestles of its customers.

Hermès conceives artisanal objects that are at once contemporary and timeless, functional and durable, bold and made to exacting standards. From design to prototype to finished object, creativity is freely expressed in collaboration with the house’s artisans.

Guided by unbridled curiosity, the sixteen Hermès métiers continue to explore the house’s exceptional know-how to craft new creations from the finest materials. Herm ès takes great care to ensure diversity in its employees’ profiles and experience: everyone is free to find fulfilment through the opportunities provided by the house by means of in-house mobility and the cross-sector approach to career paths encouraged within the group.

Driven by an entrepeneurial spirit that has become a business model, Herm ès offers challenging and meaninful roles consistent with the values of craftmanship that guide the house.

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Yellowstone Forever GRRRRR! - Designed by Alice Shirley

PATRICK MARKLE

Canadian landscape artist Patrick Markle grew up in the Kawartha Lakes Region of Southern Ontario. Living in cottage country gave Markle an appreciation for the Canadian wilderness at an early age. His love of landscape, lead the artist to the western shores of Lake Superior where he attended Lakehead University. After graduating with an Honours Bachelors of Fine Art, Markle moved West and has since settled in Fernie BC where he has been painting for the past fifteen years.

Patrick is inspired by experiences in the wilderness. His work focuses on the rhythm of nature and capturing fleeting moments of beauty. Markles work remains true to line and form to keep specific locations recognizable and accurate. He then adds his own flowing style to express the grandeur and beauty of the natural world. It’s with this rhythmic style and heightened colours that Markle creates paintings that are very dramatic and powerful.

Summer Foothills

JOHN COSBY

“When a person stands in front of one of my paintings, I want that person to feel the wind and the heat I felt when I painted it.” - John Cosby

As a painter Cosby travels extensively painting what he sees and feels. Bold use of color and an energetic brush stroke combined with the truth of the place is what you will see and feel when viewing a painting by Cosby.

Born in Hollywood California in 1955, Cosby was raised in the west. At an early age he began to draw and paint and was lucky enough to have been inspired by a grandmother who was an oil painter. “She would give me the paint, some brushes and a scrap of canvas and set me off to paint. This early experience took the fear out of creating a painting,” said Cosby.

Cosby started traveling at an early age. At 18 he was chosen as an advance man for the Executive Branch of the US Government, served under two Presidents and traveled the world. He met many interesting people and saw many things but what most interested him were the great works of art he encountered. “They haunted me and helped set the course for my career as a painter”. After leaving the White House, Cosby rebuilt an old classic sailing sloop designed by Nathaniel Herrishoff. With a friend (who had dreams of being a writer) set sail up and down the eastern seaboard in the inland waterway for 3 years. Thus he began his art career.

"Doing drawings of anything that moved me, things began to sell and my course was set," said Cosby.

Upon his return to the California, Cosby began painting the sea and landscape of coastal California. With a strong gallery response, his success as a painter quickly followed.

Cosby currently resides and maintains a studio in San Clemente CA. He works on location around the world and is represented by some of the finest galleries. Cosby was a founding board member of the prestigious “Laguna Plein Air Painters Association”, a Signature member of both Pleinair Painters of America and The California Art Club. He has served as an officer of these groups to help further the cause of Art. Cosby was also a founder of the Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational that was held at the Laguna Art Museum for thirteen years and is now in it's 18th year.

With his bold contemporary style Cosby has captured the imagination of some very important collectors. His work can be found in many private, public and corporate collections around the world. Cosby is recognized internationally.

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