Biography
I studied watercolor as a boy. I then studied oils for four years as a young man in New England.
I earned various non-art degrees and concentrated on raising our family earning a living as a teacher, an inner city High School Principal, and later as the CTO/CIO of a large public organization.
In the nineteen-eighties I began experimenting with the then emerging digital art forms.
I taught Digital Tools for Artists, Composition, and Electronic Painting at The Art Student League of Denver for seven years after I first retired. I now work as a full time artist.
Among my permanent installations is a sixteen-piece commission for the corporate collection at Delta Dental national headquarters.
I work in acrylics, oil, inks, archival pigment prints, mixed media, and sculpture.
Nine Dot Arts, Art Consultants, Denver, CO represent me.
My work is characterized by themes that interest me.
I spent years documenting the urban landscape of Denver in a series of more than 120 Archival Pigment Prints entitled Inner Mansions®.
An Archival Pigment Prints series entitled “Rivers Run” includes over 40 pieces of the many rivers I have paddled, floated and rowed.
A series of works in both acrylics and oil, as well as Archival Pigment Prints, capturing Colorado farms and ranches met with considerable success with audiences.
I also spent time in New Mexican Pueblos documenting and interpreting what I saw.
For the past ten years I have been working on a series of Ecological Landscapes to describe my growing concern for our fragile planet.
My next series will be based on using contemporary mixed media, the subject will be Divisions, a look at our fragmenting cultures. I am currently working on a painting based on the religious imprisonment of the Uighur people in the Xinjiang region, China.
I live in Colorado and draw inspiration from the people I meet, the West and Southwest, and from my travels.
Watch this site for my other artwork or E-mail me regarding your own art interests.
Sincerely,
Tom Stevens