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A beautiful print of an exceptional quality. The item was well packaged and arrived in immaculate condition. I'm very happy with my purchase.
I bought these two Shadow pieces because they spoke to me. I feel the stillness of the night in the moonlight yet they are still alert. I've got quite a few pieces from Stephen, everything is beautifully crafted and always of the highest quality.
I recently bought Frost print because I felt really drawn to it even though it a completely different style to my usual choice. Stephen described it perfectly. I really love this print.
I have recieved my painting for my SEN Daughter Lily-Rose. The painting is incredible and my daughter loves the painting. I have been a collector of Stephens artwork for years and have never been disappointed. This is my second commissioned painting and I am beyond impressed. Thank you for lily-Roses artwork.
Really pleased with my picture as I totally love tigers completely. Just trying to find the right frame for it.
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About the Artist
Stephen Holder
I paint wildlife in watercolour, and I also work in abstract. Both start from the same place: a single creature, or a single form, held in a moment of charged stillness. The landscape falls away so there's nothing left to look at but the thing itself, the animal or the shape it dissolves into.
I'm drawn to solitary animals for the quality of attention they carry. A wolf alert at the edge of something. A raven watching. The abstract work chases that same held breath without a recognisable subject, energy caught the instant before it moves. Whatever that quality is, figurative or formless, I want the painting to hold it.
My Process
Watercolour
I paint wildlife in watercolour, using Winsor and Newton professional paints and paper. The work is about presence more than description. A single creature is held in a moment of charged stillness, the landscape stripped away so there's nothing left to look at but the animal itself.
I'm drawn to solitary animals for the quality of attention they carry: a wolf alert at the edge of something, a raven watching. Whatever that is, I want the painting to hold it.
The Abstract Work
Acrylic on canvas
The abstract paintings are usually acrylic on canvas, bigger and looser than the watercolours, built up in layers rather than caught in one sitting. Where a wildlife painting strips everything back to leave a single animal, these hold on to the energy alone, the movement without the creature that made it.
The shapes come from the same watching. Geometric patterns set against organic forms, sometimes a flower worked in, pushed together until they carry a tension of their own. I'm chasing the moment a shape almost resolves into something and then doesn't, pattern that holds the same charged stillness as an animal about to move, without ever telling you what it is.
