Found and Lost: John Dilg

Over the decades, American artist John Dilg has distilled scenic panoramas into earth-toned paintings that feel immediately familiar yet poignantly dreamlike. His style is deceptively simple, his line fluid, expressive. Having specialised in abstraction early in his career, Dilg’s gradual evolution towards landscape painting retained an especial awareness of spatial relationships, a consciousness of the physical and allusory weight of forms and structures. His landscapes transcend scenery, becoming a lexicon of objects, each powerfully charged with memory and meaning. Dilg’s paintings are wonderfully contemplative spaces, where solitude and recognition coexist, evoking our shared longing for meaning within nature's vastness.