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
UH Final Degree Show
2004 Margaret Harvey Open
Projects
2007 Creative Partnerships Harlow
2006 Kaleidoscope Festival
2006 University of Hertfordshire – Artscool
2006 Astley Cooper
2006 Hertswood School
2005 Little Heath Primary School:
2005 University of Hertfordshire – Artscool