Stephen R Hand

I have been painting for over 17 years and I am self taught painter. I enjoyed a successful career in the financial services industry for over 25 years. One day I decided the corporate life I could stand no more and decided to pursue my love of creating and painting large impressionistic works of art. Most of my work is in large format and painting on that scale gives me freedom of melting and moving the colors together. I create with the form of layering multiple colors in order to give true impressionistic works to warm my collectors souls. I want future collectors to experience how colors live together and flow into creative harmony. Color is a blessing. It's powerful, it flows, it melts, and it's what makes the essences of beauty and creation. I love to swim in color and I only use colors that love each other, so it brings out moods of bliss and happiness. This is the essence of my art.

I paint for the ability to release my creative soul. Their is nothing greater in life than the start of a blank white canvas. Sculpting the painting and making the colors dance around the canvas in harmony brings me complete joy. I don't have to paint, I get to paint. For me a day of painting is like a day at the spa, complete Bliss.

Clearwater High School '83