Steven Mark De Ciantis

Steven Mark De Ciantis is a British abstract artist creating rich, complex surfaces and atmospheric landscapes using primarily oil paint and cold wax medium. His work explores how the symbolic, perceptual, and noetic dimensions of art coalesce not only an emotional response, but a shift in Point of View where consciousness and world are co-constituted — how, through acts of artistic engagement, imagination serves a mode of cognition, resonating direct inner experience with outer form.

Short Courses in Painting, Art Residencies, Atelier Learning. Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY (July-Aug 1995), Artist Community, Gainsville, GA (1988-1990), Atelier Alcazar, Granada, Spain (2006), Kairos Community trust/John Latham Archive, Peckham, London (2007-9). Academic. B.Sc. (hons.) Psychology, Aston University; PhD Psychology, University of Hertfordshire (1987); MA Philosophy studies, Birkbeck University of London (2003-4).

Method of Imagination, Art-based research, London Aesthetics Forum.

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With gratitude and thanks to the California Institute of Integral Studies, Mind Research Network, Bromley Mindfulness, Kairos Community Trust and the John Latham Archive, Flat Time House, Peckham, London.