‘A mood painter par excellence’
Art Review, on Steven’s sell-
‘a world where contemplation outlasts frivolity’
‘Steven Outram’s art descends from somewhere higher than our shallow age. Not for Outram the stunts and hype
of the Emin Britart crowd. His art smoulders with a control acquired through years of dedicated application.
At first glance you may see a smoky landscape, a moonlit bay, a tree-lined gorge. At second glance you notice an order
that comforts and assures. The longer you look, you are struck by the mastery of Outram’s brushwork, his tiny flicks of
brilliant light, the detail with which he records and varies, his subtleties of colour, all executed with serenity.
To witness the soft-spoken Outram in his Forest of Dean studio is to leave this gloating circus of the 21st century and to
visit a world indubitably more real, a world where contemplation outlasts frivolity and where beauty carries itself with grace.’
‘His art makes us re-
of the natural world that we have taken for granted’
Julian Halsby, The Artist Magazine, December 2006.
‘Here is painting that is crafted,
composed, beautifully and skillfully wrought’
Damien Enright, Cork Examiner, 5.10.2000.
Revealing the Light oil 20” x 24”
Quentin Letts, February 2013
Steven Outram RBA