I create art because I’ve always been driven to express my inner thoughts and reflections on what I see and feel through art. I find beauty in everything I see and my primary wish is to represent what I see with oil paints. I’ve been painting with oil paints since 1987 and I've been showing and selling my artwork since 1992. I’m inspired by color and I enjoy depicting what I see with paint not literally but expressively. With my career background working as a graphic designer I’m intrigued with shapes and either balanced or purposefully unbalanced compositions. I work quickly and try to keep spontaneity in my pieces trying not to look overworked. I’m very influenced by Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro and the impressionists for their ideals of capturing the light in their compositions I also greatly admire Gustov Klimt and Edward Hopper. I use palette knives and brushes and most often let the pieces themselves direct my brush techniques. I want the viewer to be calmed by my artwork. Through color and design I try to move the viewers eyes through the artwork. I believe every painting is an attempt to make a solution to the problems and challenges of the composition. If a viewer appreciates the artwork, then the problem is unseen and the solution correct. All of my artwork is in some manner an attempt to convey my firm belief in the goodness and beauty underlining all of nature and our environment.

My studio is located in Sacramento California. Studio visits can be arranged by calling me at 916-601-1067.

Steve Duroncelet