The Society for the Preservation of Culture, in New York, aided Onslow Ford’s release from active service, and in return early in 1941 he gave lectures there entitled Surrealist Painting: an adventure into Human Consciousness, attended by artists who would spearhead Abstract Expressionism. In 1941, Onslow Ford married the poet Jacqueline Johnson, they moved to Mexico and two years later he amicably severed relations with the Surrealists. In 1947 Onslow Ford settled in the San Francisco Bay area, by which time his painting was more related to the natural world. He formed the Dynaton group in 1951 with Lee Mullican and former Surrealist Wolfgang Paalen, developing a metaphysical element in his work fostered by Oriental thought and religion. In 1952, he became an American citizen and in 1958 built a home and studio in a forest area near Inverness, California. In those woods, he recalled, he had had the revelation that the basic forms of the line, circle and dot were “at the root of art,” a theme dominating his output for many years. To capture his thoughts at speed, with the chemist William Parle he developed a precursor of acrylics that made that possible. In 1998, Onslow Ford founded the Lucid Art Foundation at Inverness, supporting artists and researchers committed to the environment and exploring deep levels of consciousness. He donated to it some of his work, which he rarely sold but which was shown at the Tate Gallery and major American venues. Onslow Ford’s books include Painting in the Instant, 1964, Creation, 1978, and Once Upon a Time, 1999.