Chris Stephens
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Chris Stephens - Fine art prints for sale printed on watercolour, photo paper and canvas
ARTIST PROFILE
Chris Stephens
Chris trained in the painting school at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in the 1960s under Evan Uglow and Frank Auerbach.
A varied career followed in the theatre and television, education, and speech and language therapy. He had ten years as Dyslexia Adviser to York and Leeds Universities.
He has been painting full time since June 2002 following a successful solo exhibition at the Norman Rae Gallery, Langwith College, University of York in the spring of the same year.
His influences are wide-ranging. He has respect for those who taught him at Camberwell in a tradition of: close observation, a passion for the medium and the subject; 'to thine own self be true'. Colour, gesture, drawing and a desire for harmony in a disturbing world all contribute to his images of fish, lemons, landscapes and friends and family - and, of course, the past.
Chris's paintings are in private collections in Paris, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland, Singapore and Yorkshire. Over the past two years he has received many commissions for work to be placed in domestic settings.
He works closely with imagiclée and regards the result of this collaboration shown here on shopforprints.com as an integral part of the creative process. Each print is personally approved by Chris, thus allowing an alternative way of acquiring his works.
Recently he has been working mainly in pastel using gum arabic as a medium. Sometimes he makes a final statement in black ink or white acrylic. Subjects are wide ranging but, most recently, include portrait heads inspired by Greek sculpture, family and friends.
Chris is a member of the Leeds Fine Art Club and the York Art Workers Association, continuing to learn from what other artists do - how they do it and why.
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