Steve Roberts MA
Steve Roberts is a professional artist living and working in Cheltenham, UK. Steve’s practice is primarily focused on abstract painting. Working with oils, Steve combines rich colour and texture to create works with a visceral impact. Steve’s inspiration is most often found in natural forms such as the landscape and the figure which inform his loose and intuitive approach to abstraction.
When do you feel most alive? For me, it’s when I’m painting and drawing.
‘Stillness & Storm’ is a metaphor for the continuum of experience. The world often feels chaotic, but stillness can always be found. When I paint, I feel this stillness, a sense of calm and completion. Here, my sense of self disappears, the analytical mind silenced. I am guided by the visceral, the sensuous, the tactile. What remains is the trace of my presence in time and space, an object embodying the experience of its creation.
Reading List
Below are six key texts which have inspired Steve’s latest body of work for Stillness & Storm. Coupled with his own interpretation and synthesis with the exhibition title, Steve has utilised various aspect of these texts to inform the various two and three-dimensional forms in the exhibition.
1. Symbols and Allegories in Art – Mathilde Battistini
First Published: 2005
2. The Water Book – Alok Jha
First Published: 2015
3. Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching – D.C. Lau (Translator)
First Published: 1979
4. Three Zen Sutras: The Heart, The Diamond and The Platform Sutras – Red Pine (Translator) First Published: 2021
5. Leonardo da Vinci: The Codex Leicester – Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Ryan
First Published: 1504 (published by Scala 2007)
6. Tao: The Watercourse Way – Alan Watts with Collaboration from Al Chung-Liang Huang
First Published: 1975