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Intervention

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Medium:

Oil on Canvas

Dimensions:

100x100cm

Style:

Abstract

Year Created:

2024

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Intervention is an elegy to Earth’s endangered freshwater systems. The central waterway, choked and deadened, no longer serves as a source of life but a mirror to our failure: a poisoned artery within a dying body. It suggests that humanity’s insatiable thirst for industrial progress, symbolised by the looming, indistinct factories, has come at the cost of the very waters that once sustained us. This work sits within the lineage of environmental art, evoking the apocalyptic Romanticism of painters like John Martin, yet filtered through a contemporary ecological lens. Intervention offers both a visual warning and a moment of sublime awe: the beam of light suggests a turning point, a possible ‘intervention,’ whether environmental, spiritual, or otherworldly in origin. It could be the Earth’s final, furious gasp, or a divine reckoning. Intervention has won an open call art prize and was exhibited in Chalk Farm, London in May 2025.

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Ewan Story

London-born, Ewan had a long career in advertising as an art director, a writer and a creative director before he decided to concentrate exclusively on his contemporary art practice several years ago. Ewan is the winner of several prestigious art prizes, the latest of which saw his work feature in 100 Emerging Artworks 2025, a global art award from the Arts to Hearts Project. He is also in line to win a prize as a Finalist/Honourable at the Almenara Art Prize, another international and widely recognised award. He is currently in the midst of a postgraduate MA in Fine Art at Falmouth University, and embracing new potential directions, collaborations and further possibilities to develop his practice.

Intervention is an elegy to Earth’s endangered freshwater systems. The central waterway, choked and deadened, no longer serves as a source of life but a mirror to our failure: a poisoned artery within a dying body. It suggests that humanity’s insatiable thirst for industrial progress, symbolised by the looming, indistinct factories, has come at the cost of the very waters that once sustained us. This work sits within the lineage of environmental art, evoking the apocalyptic Romanticism of painters like John Martin, yet filtered through a contemporary ecological lens. Intervention offers both a visual warning and a moment of sublime awe: the beam of light suggests a turning point, a possible ‘intervention,’ whether environmental, spiritual, or otherworldly in origin. It could be the Earth’s final, furious gasp, or a divine reckoning. Intervention has won an open call art prize and was exhibited in Chalk Farm, London in May 2025.

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