Steve Rogers AWS, NWS

 

             San Marco in Primavera - Painting

                        fws best of show - 2016                                                  nws purchase award best of show - 2006

ARTIST STATEMENTS

 

My purpose, as a REPRESENTATIONAL ARTIST is to portray the beauty of light and color in God's world as I experience it within my heart. These images are a series of watercolors I have painted since my first trip to the Mediterranean in 1992. On this and subsequent trips I have been able to paint this beautiful land not as one who sees it every day, but as a “visitor”, who is awestruck by something fresh and new and at the same time very ancient

As an INTUITIVE ABSTRACT ARTIST I am inspired  by the plein air locations that I teach in throughout the United States and Mediterranean Europe.  When I return to the studio my passion has increasingly become painting the emotion and spiritual feeling of place rather than elaborating on the representational imagery I have already created in the field.  I am only using this internal reference as a jumping off point and I then begin a conversation with the painting itself in which I allow Its development to guide my action in an intuitive and responsive manner.  Somewhere toward the end of this dance I engage in a more proactive way to pull the composition together.  I am working on 300 lb. Hot Pressed Paper with Golden Fluid Acrylics and Caran d’Arches watercolor pencils which allow me the freedom to respond as the painting evolves without the limitations of traditional transparent watercolor.

  

 

      Painting - Patterns of Paros           Reflections of Aegali - Painting                            

                                    aws award - 1998                                                                              aws award - 1997               

 

            Reflections of Morning                              

                                      AWS award - 2000                                                                                       aws   award - 2006