Stephen Bishop's landscapes are painted en plein air in all weathers along the Dorset Coast. His paintings are often completed within view of the sea. The rawness and emotion of working outdoors and his connection with nature combines with his own energetic technique. Nature provides rich inspiration, as it did for the artists he admires most:; Turner, Van Gogh and Monet.
BIOGRAPHY
Following his art college training, Stephen took away a love of painting and life drawing. He lived and worked as an artist in London in the 1980's. A three month spell in an artist's studio in Andulucia mountain village 1987 proved to be a turning point for his artistic direction. In 1988 he was inexorably drawn to live and work in Dorset. His studio at Langton Matravers in Purbeck is just over one mile from the beautiful Dancing Ledge, part World Heritage Jurassic Coastline.
Lady Digby invited the artist to paint her stunning garden at Minterne in Dorset. The painting "Lady Digby's Garden" was a finalist in the Winsor & Newton Young Artist Award at the Society of Oil Painters Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. His a full scale portrait painting of his grandparents, "Mr & Mrs Roberts" was reviewed in the Telegraph newspaper and made it through to the finals of the prestigious BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery.
Stephen's work is being increasingly talked about and collected by devotees from Britain and the USA. His work is held in the collection of Royal Academician Sir Anthony Caro CBE.
John Constable said that "painting is another word for feeling", this is a statement Stephen's work richly exemplifies.
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