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Rick Stevens is a New Mexico-based landscape artist, represented by Ann Korologos Gallery, whose vibrant works juxtapose shapes, patterns, colors and textures in unexpected ways. We visited his studio in Santa Fe, NM, where he had a large canvas on the easel and painted for us, demonstrating how he uses digital and painted studies, multiple viewpoints from his loft, in a mirror, and from a distance, and his use of paint and paint sticks to apply layer after layer of paint. Enjoy this video of Stevens demonstrating his painting process with The Footpath, pictured below, on the easel, now available at Ann Korologos Gallery.
Rick Stevens’ career as an artist has evolved in much the same way his paintings do. The artist takes his inspiration from the natural world, approaching his paintings with spontaneity and transmitting the feelings evoked by the landscape with immediacy and improvisation, an approach he compares to the jazz music often playing in his studio. He looks for ways to vary the elements, gestures, patterns or rhythms in his marks and textures. “Often it comes together in a mysterious way, through ‘accident’ or intuitive guidance,” says the artist. “It’s a process of projecting intention, then letting go of fixed ideas of how it will come together.”
