Added Feb 18, 2006
'RE: drawing' Oriel Davies Newtown 14 June - 2 August 2008. New exhibition showcasing contemporary approaches to drawing in this state-of-the-art Arts Council funded gallery in Mid Wales. The exhibition was selected by Nigel Prince, Curator at Ikon Gallery Birmingham, Sue Williams, artist and Yvonne Crossley artist and former Jerwood Drawing Prize selector. Stephen West will be showing 'Sculpture Materials 3' a very recent drawing made at the studio in Charente and expressing ideas about carved stone architecture, the stone as a block and the human form. It includes a sketch of a man wearing a beret which is also a work in progress in Sireuil Limestone from Angouleme.
Stephen's statement on drawing; "Drawing is central to all my work and a defining element of visual art. It has less to do with materials than an attitude to discovery, experimentation and mark making. That said, much of my work is with charcoal and paper, but work in stone carving, assemblage and paint on canvas is all really drawing as I understand it. The great thing about drawing is that, because everyone can do it, then everyone can empathise with and understand the visual thinking of the maker."