Artist, Illustrator, Book Designer Steven Felmore is a versatile, multi-disciplined illustrator who employs both traditional and digital media using Freehand, Painter and Photoshop and Cinema4D on the Macintosh to produce artworks of exceptional detail and quality. Apart from the challenge of architectural and technical work, he enjoys rendering with a humorous tongue-in-cheek approach. Over the past 20 years his illustrations have won a variety of awards including Clio, Loerie Technical, Spada and Black Eagle trophies. On the Fine art side, Steven has only had a two public exhibitions due to his detailed and time-consuming approach. His paintings and drawings of "Remote Interiors" were praised by late art critic and historian, Sir Kenneth Clarke in a personal letter to the artist said: ‘I have never seen anything quite like your work before ... not derivative … original.’ . The Cape Town critic, Eldred Green, wrote: "Gems of texture, balance and colour … he certainly has something to say." and "More will be heard from Felmore". Further comments on his philosophy are available on Art Philosophy or Blog. Since then I have concentrated on illustration using my fine art skills and in the past 5 years have returned to traditional oil painting as my preferred medium of expression. At present I am creating a series of Fynbos paintings which are about portraying Nature as an eco system in the Cape Peninsula mountain reserve areas, and the sensitivity and fragility of this ecosystem. Steven's motto is: "Quality without compromise". |