Bullfinch

John Hurford began painting soon after he left school in 1964. Self-taught and with no formal training, he quickly became one of the real forces behind the British psychedelic art movement, and was the only psychedelic artist of his generation to contribute to all three of the most influential and important underground publications of the 1960s – OZ Magazine, International Times and Gandalf’s Garden.His psychedelic style of painting and the subjects he chose were extremely influential – young people (especially those within the emerging art school culture at the end of the 1960s) instantly related to it, and it sparked off a trend in itself when it first appeared. His style is unique and instantly recognisable, his paintings are often crammed with flowers and insects, all bursting with colour.