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Is this Art or not?
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
In 1980 I had a one-man show at the Greenville County Museum of Art in South Carolina. Despite its hinterlands location, the museum has a very good collection, and I was honored to be showing there. At the opening of my show I was asked by the curator if I would consider a commission to do the artwork for the poster of a show coming up at the museum called Animals in the Arts.
Tags: art museum, poster
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The Perfect Painting
Friday, April 24th, 2009
In 2000-01 I did a series of watercolor paintings that I called “camp roads”. In Maine a camp road is a windy dirt road through the woods that leads to your cabin or house by the lake. These roads are usually a very pale tan, and in these paintings I wanted to show the beauty of the dappled light and shadows. (more…)
Tags: landscape painting, Maine, the perfect painting
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Hello.
I'm Stephen Springer Davis
I'm a pretty much self-taught and pretty much unknown artist and designer living near Philadelphia. The plan is to tell you about my artwork, why I do it, maybe how I do it, and also about other artists who've inspired me along the way.
My definition of the term "painting" will remain intentionally broad so I can talk about anything that interests me.
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