Small works on paper exploring the optical mixing of colors done in conjunction with IMP series.

"PREIMP" Series 

Diamond-shaped, unstretched canvases with colors imploding to a central point created as an exploration of optically mixed color.

"IMP" Series 

Various studies and one-off pieces that have been created over a span of many years that explore a variety of new directions and possibilities.

Tangential Work 1998-2016

These paintings are inspired by the visual cataloguing of plants and animals in the Victorian era.  I had been doing some studies related to more biological themes and this series came along due to the small scale of each piece.  This is the only series that resulted from those studies to date, but there were studies for a "Biolog" series with one-celled organisms and a "Primord" series that resembled primitive aquatic plants.  I may yet explore both those themes.

"Species Series"

As it happens, my birthday is the Fourth of July and m wife's birthday happens to be Valentine's Day.  It dawned on me one day that it was a bit odd that I had never made images of hearts or firecrackers.  That sent me, briefly, on a tangent.

"Hearts and Firecrackers"

My most recent work in which I explore the optical mixing of color by overlaying the tiny skeins of paint generated by the electric little mark I've become infatuated with.

"Poles" Series 2013-2017

Paintings inspired by two computer generated images in Science News magazine showing the web-like distribution of galaxies and galaxy clusters in the early universe in one and the distribution of dark matter in the early universe in the other.  

"Presence" Series 2009-2012

Paintings in which I tried to depict the universe of "mind and spirit" while using imagery of the material universe from the Hubble space telescope  as an inspiration.

"Nebula" Series 2007-2008

Paintings utilizing an electric little mark that suggested to me the current theory in physics called "string theory" that suggests that all of reality is built from tiny knots of energy.

"String Theory" Series 2005-2006

Paintings created with a vocabulary of rubber stamps I carved myself, addressing the density of information we deal with in the modern world.

"Stamped" Series 1999-2005

Paintings that explored the ambiguity of shadows using a vocabulary of rubber stamps I carved myself.  These were created between other series over many years.

"Shadow" Series 1994-2013

Small paintings intended to suggest modern "ancient tablets".

Stephen Mauldin