A contemporary British artist
Steven Outram RBA
The pressure of painting and exhibiting is constant,
especially as my work is finely crafted and time-
consuming, but it urges me on to experiment and develop
my favourite themes.
When I think I’ve exhausted all my creative energies,
I have only to walk out and look at the extraordinary
effects of light and atmosphere which transform how we
see and feel, and the ideas just keep coming.”
“I have been painting and exhibiting continuously since graduation from Medway College of Art in 1973.
It is my life, and my living.
Growing up in Dartford, I would take my dog with me
and explore the Thames valley, spending days sketching
and painting, regardless of weather or time.
Late in the evening a driftwood fire somewhere out on
the Thames marshes in the 1970’s might have located me, drawing until it was too dark to see.
Art has been an obsession for me
since about the age of fourteen; as a
schoolboy I knew that my destiny was
to be a painter. Later, with the
encouragement of my mentor,
Ted Draper (Vice Principal,
Ravensbourne College of Art), I began
my career as a full-
