STEPHEN DUNN

To contact the artist  stephen.dunn6@gmail.com

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"TIME PIECES", exhbitiion opening Benjamin Rhodes Arts  

Thursday 15 January 6 - 8.30pm, continues to 7 March 2026

Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 6pm, 62 Old Nichol Street, London E2 7HP

See exhibition leaflet and invitation below

Writing too much about a visual experience can sometimes have the effect of

cataracts i.e. a clouding of what’s in front of you. The enclosure of anything visual

in words almost acts as an obligation or as a prescription of how to see it.

Richard Smith, wrote in 1952, “Words are traps that lead the non-artist into cliche

thinking and conclusive evaluation.”

The titles should be adequate, the paintings are a collection of lines, dots, colours, shapes, marks and forms that individually and collectively simmer and survive to have their own dynamism and a life of their own.

I build them and they grow, each mark is part of that building process that gathers together and moves along creating its own visual narrative. There’s a need to be excited by the possibilities and uncertainties that occur. The painting can start with some loose colours on the canvas or a title or memory that gives you the freedom to invent… It’s a performance of painting, visual thinking, left to right, front to back.

A resolved painting conveys its intention, whether it be the emotions of joy, humour, feeling, beauty or whatever else but it should explain itself. That’s when it survives on its own.

Stephen Dunn

Limited edition print of "City Streets" available