Stephen Macphail

Personal Art Profile

My paintings, all figurative, are about the experience of looking and seeing. I want my paintings to make people look again and again. I have used various techniques to achieve this. The reason for doing this is to physically, mentally and spiritually engage viewers in order to improve people’s psychic condition. When viewing the paintings, I want a sense of wonder to be engaged, like an infant awakening to the world. In so doing with the actual painting, there is an exchange of energy between the chemical, electrical and particle components of the mind, the painting and the universe. This happens best by looking at the physical painting.

My subject matter is my response to my encounters with life. My paintings do not just have a life of their own, but are alive. I want them to exude light and life, as if being a source of both. That is the driving force behind each work. I am after a mystical and a poetic response to the world around me. By immersion in the study of the subject and the magical interpretation of it through paint, the painting, peace can be brought to the mind of the viewer.

My main interest is in people, particularly those around me, and their impact on the world. The path that we...

M.A. (Royal College of Art)

B.A. 1st Class Hons Painting Gloucestershire College of Art