Born in Darlington County Durham, U.K in 1957. A Durham lad, steve's career began with The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald March 1979. "A painters dreams come true in Pewsey" and "Now don't move son." But he did.., and spent his early years travelling Europe, which included several years living on the island of Corfu, Greece, where he lived with another English painter selling "tourist" paintings off the back of a motorbike.
In 1991, after his return to England, Steve was nominated for outstanding achievement in the visual arts via The Northern Arts and Tyne Tees Television Arts Awards.
Often with a spiritual "feel" his paintings regularly carry a touch of the surreal which he handles proficiently with watercolouir, acrylate resins and 24ct gold leaf. |
CHILDREN OF THE TOURNISOLS
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