With Mixed Media Artwork, "Harvest" 2009
Stev’nn grew up in rural Ontario with a 35 mm camera in one hand and a paintbrush in the other. He studied film, painting and photography at Concordia University in Montreal and continues to draw influences from these disciplines.
After working as the director of a non-profit film co-op, a director of indie music videos and as an international award winning television promo producer, Stev’nn returned to painting with a series entitled Wounded – a series of aqua-oil portraits of bleeding men that explores the link between vulnerability and masculinity.
In his current work, Stev’nn returns to his roots with Skylight a photography & mixed media landscape series. These paint splattered enlargements depict the farmhouses, roads and big skies of his childhood and explores the boundary between photography and painting.
His work can be found in the Public spaces of both the Residences of the Ritz Carlton in downtown Toronto and in the lobby of the Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls.
Stev’nn has sold his work in Canada and the United States and can be found at the Edward Day Gallery, Muse and PI Fine Arts in Toronto, Terrence Robert Gallery in Ottawa and Elliot Louis in Vancouver. Stev’nn has recently been filmed for the (artist) reality TV series*, “Star Portraits” and has been featured twice on Bravo! News.