Steve Rogers

Fellowship: August 2005 – August 2010 The Forge

Artform: Fine Art

I have continued to create large foliage paintings.

I have always had a problem with the rectangular canvas and I am making cut-outs which use the image of one old master within the shape of a more contemporary practitioner. I am also creating dressed nudes – taking well known nudes (like Cranach’s Venus in the National Gallery) and dressing them in contemporary clothing and colours. I have also returned to 3 dimensional work.

I have experimented using the fluorescent colours which most art students enjoy. I have used my usual sources of images and forms including flowers and eyetraces. Fluorescent colours remain very difficult – easier, I suspect if you are a fish

Education

2005 University of Hertfordshire Fine Arts BA (Hons)

Commissions

2007 Beales Hotel (via the University of Hertfordshire)

16 feet triptych foliage painting

Awards

2005 Fellowship Digswell Arts Trust

2004 Margaret Harvey Open Faculty Prize

Exhibition

2006 Artshed Spring Exhibition

County Hall, Hertford

2005 UH Ex Students Harlequin Centre Watford