STEPHEN FELSTEAD

Stephen Felstead was born in Romsey, Hampshire in 1957 and moved to Cornwall in 1990. For many years he worked at sea in the Merchant Navy and dredging.  Living in Mousehole near the fishing port of Newlyn it was inevitable that he should end up as a fisherman. He had his own small boat working out of Mousehole and also worked on netters and trawlers out of Newlyn. For a time he worked on a ‘super crabber’ in Guernsey and was particularly impressed by the colourful boats filling the harbours of the Islands.  It was from this that he took his inspiration for his pastel boat paintings.

Although Stephen has had no formal art training he has always sketched and painted and in 1998 found that his pastel paintings of boats attracted interest from local galleries. He believes that having an art degree is not everything.  He feels that training can stifle ones originality and ability to paint with freedom and draws on his own experiences of life, thereby making his paintings unique.  He has now changed style and is painting atmospheric seascapes depicting the movement and moods of the sea.

Without his experiences at sea Stephen feels it would be impossible to create these works, remembering the highs and lows particularly those experienced as a fisherman.

Stephen has previously exhibited in:

Chase Gallery, Out of the Blue, Rooster and the Rat, The Roundhouse, Avalon, The Square Gallery, Over the Moon, Browns, Contour Contempory,Turn of the Tide in Teignmouth,The Bluestone Gallery in Wiltshire. The Great Atlantic Gallery in St Just, Duke Street Gallery in Newlyn, Atishoo Designs, Springtide Gallery in Bath, Barkhouse Gallery in Newquay, Bakehouse Gallery in Sussex, Just Fine Arts.

Stephen has sold a wide range of work to an equally wide ranging audience from  all parts of the world

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