Steve klee artist biography

02/03/2016

I'm wanting to articulate the majesty and mystery of the unseen network-connection between us and nature (as nature) and to reveal images that may not yet be in the collective unconscious - moving us through the abstract into the imaginable.​

Stephen Meakin

Artist Biography

Meakin was born in Staffordshire, England, and then spent his formative years growing up in the beautiful Georgian cities of Bath and Brighton. In 1986 he was offered a place on the Art Foundation at Brighton Polytechnic where he was encouraged to explore different forms of expression in painting, textiles, sculpture, and video. At that time the Brit Art movement was flowering in London but he was looking for a different kind of aesthetic that seemed unrepresented in the galleries. Eventually, it was an exhibition of aboriginal art that inspired him most.

Being unsure of his creative direction in 1990 he had found a place to study for a degree in 3D design at Bournemouth. It was here, whilst researching ideas for a project, he discovered a dusty old hard-back full of ancient ‘illuminated’ ma

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