STEVEN NEDERVEEN

Thanks for visiting. Let me tell you a bit about my work.

 

I love mystery and wonder, it's at the heart of my work.

Out in nature, the immense scale of the cosmos, mountain peaks and endless oceans often leaves me at a loss for words. Nature has the ability to transform people, to bring us to a state of expanded awareness where we feel a part of something immense and beautiful. Nature gives us the opportunity to let down our guard and open ourselves to curiosity, wonder and joy. It has filled me and nourished me. This is what I try to express through painting.

 

Using a combination of realistic landscape photographs with painterly brush strokes, drips and splatters, I blur the lines of "realism" and experience. While some paintings are serene and ephemeral, others are like strange atmospheric events, each suggestive of nature's mysterious and ever changing landscape.