Born in 1912 in Wendover (England), Gordon Onslow Ford decided to abandon his country and go to París where he converted to a painter. Fariba Bogzaran, Ph.D. John F. Kennedy University wrote a good overview.

He bought the Vallejo Ferryboat in 1949, later sold it to Jean Varda and Alan Watts and currently he lives as a voluntarily recluse in Northern Californiana.

Ford co-founded an artists movement called the Dynatons with Lee Mullican and Wolfgang Paalen. The Dynaton group believed that "a work of Art has to bring about an awareness of universal concerns...through momentary suspense of purpose; any incitation to immediate action prevents this state of ego-transcending awareness... Art could provide an equivalent for what in the East is called meditation."

Combining post-Einsteinian quantum physics and astrophysics with utopian social ideals, Ford and his Dynaton colleagues developed a complex iconography that aimed to reintegrate man with the cosmos. Key Lords of the Prismatic Situations is one of the artist "Cosmogons," a group of paintings created during this time in California in which geometric elements are configured into figural presences.

Hidden Painting In the right corner of the front kitchen of the Vallejo, when Craig accidently put a nail dead center through a water pipe, it was necessary to remove part of the wall to get to things.

In doing so, we accidently discovered that behind the wall was perhaps an original Gordon Onslow Ford?

Sure LOOKS like a Ford?

Especially when compared to "Fragment of an Endless" painted by Gordon Onslow Ford in 1952 while he lived on the Vallejo.