My Story

Randi Ford is a landscape painter who is inspired by the beauty, life and spirit that exists within nature.  It is her goal to capture the energy and life within the landscape through her flow paintings. Through her work she wants to spread the divine peace and love she feels when surrounded by nature to others.

Randi grew up in Sturgis, Michigan in a 1900's barn her father converted into a home. She now lives in Grand Rapids where she graduated with her B.F.A in 2012 from Grand Valley State University studying illustration and taking a few metals and painting courses. She dove into painting once she graduated and was inspired by the natural beauty of Lake Michigan and the life within it's dunes. It evoked inspiration within her and inspired her to continue to explore new places.

Music and dance are big parts of her life as well as painting. She often listens to music while creating her work and its influence can be visually seen in her pieces through their movement. Her paintings feel as if they are dancing and come to life with the harmonic patterns and rhythms she creates with her fluid strokes.  Randi is calling her paintings "Flow Paintings" because of the meditative state she gets in while painting which causes her fluid strokes.