‘Chinese Mountains’ Oil on canvas, 120 x 150cm
‘Shek O’ Oil on canvas, 120 x 120cm
‘Banyan Tree’ Oil on canvas, 120 x 120cm
‘Chinese Landscape’ Acrylic on canvas 135 x 135cm
Our very own Hong Kong based-painter Stephen Megson will be exhibiting at ‘The Space’ 210 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan.
HKAT Artist of the Week readers are invited to the Opening Reception Thursday 29th May 2014, 6.30pm to 9.30pm. The exhibition runs through Friday 30th and Saturday 31st May 2014 – Opening times : 10am to 8pm.
‘Yellow Garouda Goddess’ Oil on canvas, 60 x 60cm
Steve Megson is a Hong Kong based British teacher and artist. He has lived in Hong Kong with his wife, Anni, for 6 years. He is currently Chair of Arts at Chinese International School, Hong Kong.
Steve’s passion for art began as a child where he remembers being greatly impressed by the exquisite detail of the pre-raphaelite collection of paintings in the Birmingham City Art Gallery, UK. Attending art college in the late 1960s, Steve studied printed textiles for his undergraduate degree ( to which he accredits his love of colour and sense of compositional design) and Fine Art Painting for his Masters.
Steve enjoys many different art forms, traditional and contemporary, two and three dimensional. However, his real artistic influences have been the post impressionists, Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh, the long line of British landscape painters, particularly John and Paul Nash, John Piper and Graham Sutherland. The Americans, Hopper and Diebenkorn and . of course great figurative artists like Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud, David Hockney. Essentially a lve of colour, texture and the physical act of painting is the appeal that spurs Steve’e work and passion for art.
‘Woman in Bail’ Oil on canvas, 90 x 120cm
As an international Secondary School visual art educator one has to wear many creative hats and help young people find their own partiocular niche. For Steve the act of creativity is working from location sketches, memory and the imagination of a place or encounter and fashioning a meaningful artwork. Photography is a powerful art form but as an aid to painting it can overtake the process so Steve uses photographs only to remind himself of specific details when working representationally. Defining creativity is difficult. It may mean different things to different people and different working contexts. For Steve it is the cognitive and physical action of the process of making the artwork, from inception of idea to conjuring with technical skills and aesthetic decisions.
After almost forty very rewarding years in art education Steve wants now to devote his time to painting and hopes to move to the realative tranquility and artistic haven of Bali for impending future.
All images courtesy of Stephen Megson
For more information on Hong Kong Art Tutoring please contact:
Gail Deayton
Telephone: +852 9722 8353
Email: gail@hkarttutoring.com
Sketchbook drawing, pencil.
Sketchbook drawing, pencil.
Sketchbook drawing, pencil.
Sketchbook drawing, pencil.
Sketchbook drawing, pencil.
Sketchbook drawing, pencil.
