Steve Whitehead
Landscape PAINTINGS with teacups 2024
To include paintings of Venice, Birds & Teacups, Flowers and a vintage toy car.
Steve Whitehead is one of the leading British Realist Painters of our generation. A painter of landscape and cityscape. His work draws on diverse traditions, from American Photorealism to German Romanticism and English Surrealism. Each painting is a composite of images, photographs, sketches and colour notes collected by Steve Whitehead on location and painstakingly re-produced on canvas back at the studio. Such is the degree of detail one painting might take two years to complete.
Steve Whitehead was born in Leicestershire. He lives in North Yorkshire and is married to the artist Paula Zimmermann. He Studied at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth under the tutelage of artist David Tinker. Graduating with an MA in Fine Art. Whitehead continued his practice at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Honoured twice winning the Wales Open and prize winner for the Manchester Academy and Hunting Art Prizes exhibitions.
Steve Whitehead paintings are in the permanent collection of the Contemporary Art Society, Wales
1978 - 81 University College of Wales B.A.Hons Visual Art Aberystwyth
1982 - 84 University College of Wales M.A. Visual Art Aberystwyth
1985 - 86 Courtauld Institute of Art Postgraduate Dipoma London -
Conservation of Wall Paintings.
Public Collection:
1985 Contemporary Art Society Wales
1990 University College of Wales Cardiff
2005 Prudential Art Collection
2006 Royal Bank of Scotland
Exhibition April 2017 - The Grand Exhibition of Views - The Star and Garter Redevelopment in Richmond on Thames, Surrey