Marion Stephan

Born in 1968 in Bochum, from my early childhood on I drew and painted with great enthusiasm. So there was never really a doubt about it to work in a creative way. Predominantly I'm a figurative and landscape painter and mainly work in oil on canvas, using different techniques in order to constantly discover new ways to express. My work concentrates on the individual and atmospheric side of my view on people, landscapes and places. Instead of giving reproductions of reality, I am more interrested in creating a sort of subtle, hidden story behind snapshots of the eye. To discover this story is up to the viewer. It can vary individually. This is very important to me, because I think the process of creating should not end by finishing a painting.

As a painter I'm a convinced autodidact. I can look back now at thirty years experience of working with oil on canvas.
From the beginning of my interest in art this medium has always been the most fascinating of all to me, because it offers so many ways to work with.

After studying Product-Design in Dortmund I now work as a designer and painter all across the towns of the Ruhr-region.

Selection:
- 6 / 2001 Ausstellung "Landschaften II" im Cafe Orlando in Bochum
- 6 / 2001 Ausstellung "Geheimnisse" im Hotel Eden in Bochum
- 2 / 2008 - 3 / 2009 wechselnde Ausstellung in der Gesellschaft Harmonie in Bochum
- 3 / 2009 Ausstellung im Restaurant Tierpark's in Bochum
- 8 / 2009 Ausstellung "Hidden Stories" im Cafe Orlando in Bochum
- 12 / 2009 Ausstellung "Herbstbilder" im Restaurant Tierpark's in Bochum
- 2 / 2010 Ausstellung "Landstücke" im Biercafe in Bochum
- 4 / 2010 Ausstellung "Boy" in Rahmen des Projektes Bochumer Rundlauf
- 6 / 2010 Ausstellung "Zwischen den Zeilen" im Cafe Orlando in Bochum
- 8 / 2010 Ausstellung im Park Inn Hotel in Bochum
- 2-4 / 2011 Ausstellung im Post's Lottental in Bochum
- 4 / 2011 Ausstellung im Rahmen des Projektes Bochumer Rundlauf
- 10 / 2011 Gemeinschaftsausstellung C.A.R. in der Zeche Zollverein in Essen
- 5 / 2012 Ausstellung "I Am The Sea" in der Goldkante in Bochum
- 8 / 2012 Ausstellung "Sehen Sie was, was Sie nicht seh'n" in der Rechtsanwaltskanzlei Heene & Peters in Bochum
- 10 / 2012 Gemeinschaftsausstellung in der Sold Out Gallery in Bochum
- 7 / 2013 Ausstellung "Mögliche Geschichten" in der Galerie 13 in Bochum
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