Welcome!
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.
Here's a selection of a few of my favourite pieces"
I focused a lot on waterscapes in 2017 - 2018. I grew up sailing and have always been a bit of a waterman, so it's a natural subject for me. Click on the images to find out more about the piece.
WHAT'S NEW AND INTERESTING
NEWS:
SOLO EXHIBITION
OPENS AUGUST 11th 2108,
at Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC
BRAIN PROJECT JUROR
I'm honoured to have been selected to be a fellow Juror on this year's Brain Project! The brain sculpture are all over Toronto's downtown core, check them out!
The last 2 years I was a participant in painting one of the brain sculptures. See below.
THE BRAIN PROJECT
Baycrest Health Sciences, a world leader in brain health and aging, is raising funds and awareness of dementia, alzheimers and other brain related diseases.
They've asked fifty artists, designers and architects from all over the world to take part in painting a custom deigned brain sculpture. They'll go on display at various locations around downtown Toronto. In the fall, they'll be sold to organizations and collectors worldwide.
Here's the brain I did last year with a short write up on my approach.
Life in Between
Referencing MRI scans, my sculpture uses individually painted sheets of Plexiglas that work together to create a 3-dimensional brain. Viewed from the sides, the brain is a complete image but as the viewer moves around the piece it becomes a series of disjointed layers. Within the brain are webs of connected and disconnected structures. The light gives the brain an ethereal quality, adding to its delicate state.
Check out more at:
http://www.brainproject.ca/portfolio_page/steven-nederveen-2/
I'M BACK FROM ICELAND!
I was invited to create a painting for the Canadian Embassy
in Iceland as part of the Canada 150th celebrations.
I gave two audio/visual presentations, one in Akureyri and one in Reykjavik.
Here is the painting I created for them.
Artwork: Ocean Crossing, 30x60 inches, mixed media, 2017
CANADIAN HOUSE AND HOME MAGAZINE
A great article and a lovely home.
VANCOUVER HOME MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Here's a great article about the development of my artistic life and my last show.
Click the image to see the full story
CONTACT ME
email. steven@nederveen.ca
