Stephen Price

Stephen Price’s rich humanistic portraits are textural yet delicate, layered with a concoction of marks and surfaces that appeal on both an emotional and visual level. Price uses his imagination along with photographic source material from the int...

Stephen Price’s rich humanistic portraits are textural yet delicate, layered with a concoction of marks and surfaces that appeal on both an emotional and visual level. Price uses his imagination along with photographic source material from the internet to develop non-existent figures that inhabit their own timeless worlds. Price’s work reflects on his black identity using materials such as charcoal to celebrate the beauty of blackness, as well as atmospheric colour to ground these nameless and faceless figures in nature. The works’ seductive velvety charcoal areas sit in harmony with more gestural, glossy areas of bright acrylic paint that punctuate and surround his figures. Price is particularly concerned with colour and its emotive power in relation to the landscapes his figures inhabit - the worlds he creates are informed by both psychological and art historical research.