![]() My work is both a highly personal response to my own life, and an attempt to contribute to contemporary painting. When I am working with a representational image, abstract elements will permeate the piece. At other times, an abstract field of colour might have but a small suggestion of a tree line as the only literal device, to anchor the abstract. I’m not after a highly polished final painting. In fact I tend to enjoy ‘roughage’, and the way it works with smooth flat surfaces. I’m interested in the crossing-over point between contrasts – sometimes harmonious, sometimes abrupt – blistering charcoal merging with dripping paint – controlled drawing rubs up against random marks. Studio work offers sustained thought, while location work offers sustained observation. I move back and forth between the two, and often combine them. Winston Churchill said he did some of his best thinking while painting. I say, I do some of my best painting sitting in a ditch. My interest has always been focused on the intimate levels of human relations, and the factors shaping our identities. Painting seems to reflect and reveal some of the strongest aspects of my concerns – power and fragility, systems and individuality, narrative of human experience. Although mostly working with themes from personal experience, I seek to portray shared human experiences in ways which allow the viewer to expand upon the facts I present, with his or her own experience and memories. It is important to me that the beholder becomes personal with the work rather than trying to “read it”.
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Emma Pote
7/24/2018 07:14:13 pm
Hello! I have recently completed me across a painting of Standardbred racehorses by “Tim Steven”; the style of which reminds me of another painting I fell in love with (a horse portrait) years ago. I did not purchase the painting when I first saw it and it was gone by the time I returned for it. I hopeful that you are the same Tim Steven and that if so I may have the chance to view your horse-themed works. Please let me know if I have lucked out!
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Tim Steven
10/3/2018 02:47:03 pm
Hello Emma! In fact I think I may be the same person of which you speak. I have not been painting equine works for some time, but just the other day was going through archives and came across a few paintings that got me considering a few projects. I do appreciate your interest and would be happy to keep in touch with you should anything develop . Every year around the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto, I think of whether I have another equine series in me. I'm curious when you saw my work, and which one(s) in particular caught your eye. Thank you for your interest. Feel free to email me...tsteven@rogers.com.... Regards, Tim (Steven)
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