Steven Aalders: Place (light blue)

Steven Aalders: Place (light blue)Steven Aalders is known for his meticulous hand made abstract oil paintings, in which the heritage of modernism of Mondrian and American Minimal Art has been processed. His work is an attempt to embody the essence, to create light and space through paint. Also to remap the tradition of history of art. Modernist serial principles such as repetition and sameness are both connected to older traditions in Western art and Non Western abstract art. His use

in Printmaking and Printed Textiles

Many of my ideas uncover thoughts and opinions that underlie the public face of etiquette or small talk

or folded leaves

an omnipresent muse forever resting in the artist’s studio

I certainly worked with a reductive approach for these works

Hon FECA is an artist who has lived and worked in Aberdeen for 60 years

Donald had this to remark about the alphabet: “No doubt Lorraine Kelly will be scunnered that she lost out

Talking about art Alan Shipway states: “I find I’m interested in painting that seems to expose the mechanisms of painting itself

• So Many Perfect Moments

Medium: Lithograph with Monoprint and Screenprint

Paper Size: 77 x 56

Made during a long residency stay with Peacock Visual Arts in the 90's this etching formed part of a larger suite that recognised writers of influence to Ralph