p span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" Martin Stephen is a romantic spiritual artist. His music and painting is original and distinctive. He aims to express sound and image in the romantic, spiritual dimension recently incorporating fine art into a multi-media catalogue of music, words and video. Martin Stephen's drawings and paintings are abstract in form with pictures described as dark, angular, richly layered, an accumulation of applied ideas, hinting at a subconscious hidden world. A magical, mystical reality with passion embraced and soul laid bare. This artist portrays emotion with feeling, returning often to moon, sun, sky, beauty in eyes, in curve and shape. An act of open self-expression crossing boundaries in sound, word and paint. A combination of passion, romance, texture and colour. /span /p div br / div Beauty moves this artist to unlock sensations that echo back into the work. Martin says, “The process of creating something new that is intangible to see or touch yet knowing it may be possible to release into the world with paint or sound brings joy to my soul. My subconscious mind becomes interpretor / collaborator for it is often quite by chance, so it appears to me that through spontaneity with passionate soul searching, pictures are worked / re-worked often without my intervention the painting will emerge triumphant!" Self taught with connections, interests in the art world Martin Stephen found inspiration through moden abstract painters. An empathy and confidence became apparent as a natural extension to music improvisation. Martin paints with watercolour, gouache, oil and acrylic in addition to creating multimedia work with digital art, video and photography. He prefers to work on paper, alternately kneeling and standing above the painting which is laid on a low table and board, working at speed forming a picture quickly. This artist is prolific in output planning collections for two "seasons" each year plus special commissions. Developing his own painting style the work becomes a homage, a journey to spiritual enlightenment. The "Darkness Prevails!" collection featured on this page is part of an expanding catalogue of work by Martin Stephen. div div br / /div div br / span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;" div span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;" span style="font-size: 11px;" martin stephen (abstract artist, musician, composer, writer) martinstephen@btopenworld.com / +44 (0) 778 000 1255 / Flat 4 Marina Heights South Street, St Neots, Cambridgeshire PE19 2PH United Kingdom /span /span /div div span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;" span style="font-size: 11px;" " When there is a deep longing from your soul that you are a certain sound inside " /span /span /div /span /div /div /div /div p   /p