Steve Roberts is an internationally selling contemporary landscape artist currently living and working in the Cotswolds, UK. Steve has exhibited extensively throughout Gloucestershire and in South Wales. He has been represented by Art Cotswold and has had his work selected for several open call shows. Steve is an active participant in the wider artistic community and is a member of artForce collective, Stroud Artists Cooperative and New Bath Arts Club.

Steve has a BA in Fine Art from the Cardiff School of Art graduating in 2012 and an MA in Illustration from the University of Gloucestershire where he graduated in 2021. 

The abstract experience of landscape

Places have a huge impact on the way we feel. They can be small and claustrophobic or open and expansive. Our relationship to those places is not purely visual but derived from all our senses processing the stimuli of our environment and sending signals to our brain.

Our experience of the same location may differ greatly depending upon our mental and emotional state and if we are alone or part of a group. The historical and social context associated with a particular place, our own cultural background and beliefs can also influence our feelings about place.

My artistic process begins by stepping foot in the landscape, whether it be rural or urban. It is vital that I sense how immersion within an environment makes me feel and then communicate this through the medium of drawing and painting. It is this relationship between ourselves and our external environment which interests me and which forms the subject of my work.

I find the process of drawing and painting outdoors (en plein air) to be hugely exciting and invigorating. There is an energy within the quality of the line, the ability to communicate directly and meaningfully that cannot be achieved in the studio. My interaction with the landscape becomes the stimulus from which an interesting, lively and varied perceptive experience comes from.

The sculptural qualities of oil paint are incredibly alluring and I am captivated by the emotive and visceral charge this three dimensionality can evoke when coupled with the interplay of colour and form.

 artForce collective: http://artforce.uk/

Stroud Artists Cooperative: https://www.stroudartcoop.uk/

New Bath Arts Club: https://www.newbathartsclub.co.uk/members


CV

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 - 'The Small Works Winter Show' Spring Gallery, Cheltenham, UK (3rd - 23rd December)

2022 - 'The Small Works Winter Show' Spring Gallery, Cheltenham, UK. (1st - 23rd December)

2022 - ‘The Landscape’ Sixteen Gallery, Cheltenham, UK. (7^th – 17^th May)

2022 - ‘Spring Contemporary Painters’ Spring Gallery, Cheltenham, UK. (12^th April – 1^st May)

2021 - ‘Small Works Show’ Spring Gallery, Cheltenham, UK. (1^st – 23^rd December)

Group Exhibitions

2023 - artForce collective: 'Aspects and Visions' Sixteen Gallery, Cheltenham, UK. (3rd - 9th August)

2023 - Halcyon Days II, The Gardens Gallery, UK.
(26th April - 1st May)

2023 - MA Illustration Alumni Show, University of Gloucestershire, Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham, UK. (2nd - 12th March)

2022 - artForce collective: ‘Out in the Open’ The Gardens Gallery, Cheltenham, UK. (10^th – 16^th August)

2022 - artForce collective: ‘Across the Land’ Sixteen Gallery, Cheltenham, UK. (20^th May – 1^st June)

2022 - artForce collective: ‘Contours’ The Gardens Gallery, Cheltenham, UK. (9^th – 15^th March)

2021 - artForce collective: ‘Autumn Show’ Dove Gallery, Winchcombe, UK. (15^th – 20^th October)

2021 - artForce collective: ‘Conversations with Nature’ The Gardens Gallery, Uk. (11^th – 17^th August)

2021 - artForce collective: ‘artForce 1.’ The Dove Gallery, Winchcombe, UK. (25^th – 30^th June)

Art Fairs

2023 - Bath Contemporary Artists Fair (BCAF), Park Green Station, Bath, UK.
(8th October)

2023 - Bath Contemporary Artists Fair (BCAF), Park Green Station, Bath, UK.
(10th September)

2023 - Art in Penallt, Humble by Nature, Penallt, UK.
(18th - 20th August)

Gallery Representation

2022 - Art Cotswold (May – August)

Education

2018 - 2021 - MA Illustration, University of Gloucestershire.

2009 - 2012 – BA (Hons) Fine Art, Cardiff School of Art.

2008 – 2009 – Art Foundation Diploma, University of Gloucestershire.