Stephen Morris - Artist

Stephen has his own unique style and has adopted a narrower format which can be used horizontally or vertically. He paints ‘en plein air’ because he feels that it captures the immediacy and freshness of the Scillonian landscape. He is strongly drawn to colour, occasionally painting well-known island views but choosing a different, perhaps unusual, perspective. Stephen prefers the traditional use of watercolour to produce sweeping atmospheric skies and sea without using body colour. He mixes his media with the addition of inks and pastels. In the past, he experimented with a range of different media from oils to pastels, inks to charcoal, on projects like murals and large works. When painting on the beach, he uses sand, stone, shells, seaweed etc., combined with the watercolour.