Stephen Worrall
Stephen Worrall is a Suffolk artist who works across painting, sculpture and drawing.
He paints in acrylic on canvas. His sculpture is made in materials including galvanised netting and nylon line, ceramic and folded paper, and some of it is built for a particular place and sited outdoors, as at Sudbourne Wood.
Artist Statement
Primary, flowing, exploratory...are words you could use to describe my present direction of travel. I work quickly and freely, finding abstract expression more liberating than careful representational studies. The medium of acrylic encourages this freedom of expression. Applied mostly with a palette knife, the colours go directly on the canvas and work into each other producing texture as well as vibrant colour relationships. My sculpture adapts to suit the environment and my response to it. Some work is transitory, existing on canvas for a short while, or shaped in Nature, challenging my expectations, then reworked with insight reinvested in the next application of paint, or dissolving in time back into the environment. Whilst resisting 'labelling', I am not without higher motivations; wild environment, human form and the spirit of place matter to me.