Artist Profile - Stella Hidden
Safe Harbour
Medium: Acrylic on wood
Measurements: 31 x 31cm
Year: 2022
Price: £400 plus delivery
Silks & Saris
Medium: Acrylic on Panel
Measurements: 61 x 31cm
Year: 2022
Price: £550 plus delivery
About Matisse
Medium: acrylic on birch panel
Measurements: 91 x 62 cm unframed
Price: £1,100 plus delivery
Sometime
Medium: acrylic on panel
Measurements: 90 x 80cm
Year: 2019
Price: £1400 plus delivery
Amer Fort
Medium: acrylic on birch panel
Measurements: 61 x 46 cm unframed
Price: £650 plus delivery
Deep Harmony by Stella Hidden
Medium: acrylic on birch panel
Measurements: 31 x 31cm unframed
Year: 2023
Price: £400 plus delivery
April Sunshine and Showers
Medium: acrylic on birch panel
Measurements: 31 x 61 cm unframed
Price: £550 plus delivery
Ancient Puka Springs - Triptych
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 100 x 126cm Unframed
Year: 2019
Price: £2100 Plus Delivery
Pink is the Colour of Welcome - India Series
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 100 x100 cm
Year: 2021
Price: £1950 Plus Delivery
Sound of Light
Medium: acrylic on birch panel
Measurements: 62 x 61 cm unframed
Price: £750 plus delivery
Symphony of Landscape
Medium: acrylic on birch panel
Measurements: 61 x 91 cm unframed
Price: £1,100 plus delivery
Act One
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 28 x 35cm Unframed
Price: £260 Plus Delivery
Early morning Memory
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 90 x90cm
Year: 2021
Price: £1950 Plus Delivery
Contrapuntal
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 80 x 90cm Unframed
Price: £1400 Plus Delivery
Big Hug
Medium: acrylic on birch panel
Measurements: 31 x 31cm
Year: 2023
Price: £400 plus delivery
Dappled Light
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 182 x 31cm
Year: 2022
Price: £1950 Plus Delivery
Overflowing
Medium: acrylic on birch panel
Measurements: 62 x 61 cm unframed
Price: £750 plus delivery
Gentle Day
Medium: acrylic on birch panel
Measurements: 31 x 31cm unframed
Year: 2023
Price: £400 plus delivery
Summertime Song
Medium: acrylic on birch panel
Measurements: 62 x 61 cm unframed
Price: £750 plus delivery
Round About Midnight
Medium: Acrylic on Birch Board
Measurements: 80 x 32cm Unframed
Year: 2019
Price: £550 Plus Delivery
Hustle & Bustle
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 90 x 60 cm
Year: 2021
Price: £950 Plus Delivery
Hello Again
Medium: Acrylic on Panel
Measurements: 100 x 100cm unframed
Year: 2021
Price: £1950 Plus Delivery
Turquoise Dance
Medium: Acrylic on wood
Measurements: 31 x 31cm
Year: 2022
Price: £400 plus delivery
Take it Easy
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Measurements: 61 x 61cm
Price: £750 Plus Delivery
Across the City
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 31 x 182
Year: 2022
Price: £1950 Plus Delivery
Autumn Garden
Medium: Acrylic on wood
Measurements: 31 x 58cm
Year: 2022
Price: £480 Plus Delivery
Desert and Rich Saris
Medium: acrylic on birch panel
Measurements: 31 x 61 cm unframed
Price: £550 plus delivery
Creative Chords
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Measurements: 80 x 90cm Unframed
Price: £1400 Plus Delivery
Climate Change (revisited)
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 89 x 80cm
Year: 2022
Price: £1500 Plus Delivery
Safe Harbour
Medium: Acrylic on wood
Measurements: 31 x 31cm
Year: 2022
Price: £400 plus delivery
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Biography
Based in her Dovecote stuidio in Mansel Lacy, Herefordshire, Stella creates original vibrantly colourful artworks, inspired by her love and practice of music, dance and rhythm, as well as her passion for travel and the richness of the natural world.
Stella originaly trained in technical drawing, studied perspective and form and worked in a drawing office. Then after raising a family she returned to study Fine Art, Textiles and Art History at Hereford College of Arts and continued with 20th century Art History through the Open University.
Artist Statement
My main aim is to explore the use of layered colour and richness of paint to create rhythmic images within an atmosphere of movement and light - full of vitality and mood, some exuberant, others quiet and contemplative.
Wherever I am in the world I see many colours, tones, shapes that I put into the paintings. Each work is built up of these memories, developing over months or even years into a painting that I recognise, not of a place, but which becomes itself.
I use acrylic paints of all kinds - thick, fluid, spray, inks - on natural birch wood panels or sometimes thick paper. I like the birch wood grain which, as I begin work, I consider and which directs me each time I start a painting. Sometimes you see that grain in the finished painting which recalls the natural world which surrounds us and is a very important part of the work.
The process of creating a painting embraces not only technique but also layers of thinking, feeling and the contemplation of the work in progress. Inspiration and spontaneity is always necessary to complete a work that satisfies me.
Each moment we live we experience life through our varied senses, I hear the numerous sounds; noting the treble, the bass, the forte, the piano and the silence. I feel the rhythm, the pulse, the vibrations and the stillness. When I look at the countryside, an object, a figure, I see a harmony of colours, the shapes, the tones, the shadows. I absorb all these moments, culminating in a painting in an abstract form.