Artist Profile - Stella Hidden
Round About Midnight
Medium: Acrylic on Birch Board
Measurements: 80 x 32cm Unframed
Year: 2019
Price: £550 Plus Delivery
Ancient Puka Springs - Triptych
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 100 x 126cm Unframed
Year: 2019
Price: £2100 Plus Delivery
Act One
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 28 x 35cm Unframed
Price: £260 Plus Delivery
Rich Harmony
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 92cm Unframed
Year: 2019
Price: £1200 Plus Delivery
Take it Easy
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Measurements: 61 x 61cm
Price: £750 Plus Delivery
Contrapuntal
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 80 x 90cm Unframed
Price: £950 Plus Delivery
Here and Now
Medium: Acrylic on Panel
Measurements: 80 x 32cm Unframed
Year: 2019
Price: SOLD
Pink Is The Colour of Welcome (Jaipur)
Medium: Acrylic on Birch Board
Measurements: 100 x 100cm Unframed
Year: 2019
Price: £1950 Plus Delivery
At Last
Medium: acrylic on panel
Measurements: 51 x 61cm
Year: 2019
Price: £500 plus delivery
Water Meadow
Medium: Acrylic on Birch Board
Measurements: 100 x 100cm Unframed
Year: 2020
Price: £2200 Plus Delivery
Light Touch
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 92cm Unframed
Year: 2019
Price: £1200 Plus Delivery
Shimmer
Medium: Acrylic on 3 Panels
Measurements: 80 x 95cm Unframed
Price: SOLD
A Memory
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: Unframed
Price: SOLD
Music of the Reef - section 3
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 60 x 46cm Unframed
Price: £450 Plus Delivery
A Wander Through Time
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Measurements: 80 x 90cm Unframed
Price: £950 Plus Delivery
Music of the Reef - section 4
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 60 x 46cm Unframed
Price: £450 Plus Delivery
Creative Chords
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Measurements: 80 x 90cm Unframed
Price: £950 Plus Delivery
Moonlight
Medium: Acrylic on Birch Board
Measurements: 60 x 46cm Unframed
Year: 2019
Price: £550 Plus Delivery
Music of the Reef - section 1
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 60 x 46cm Unframed
Price: £450 Plus Delivery
Summer Fragmet
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Measurements: 80 x 90cm Unframed
Price: £950 Plus Delivery
Hi
Medium: acrylic on panel
Measurements: 80 x 90cm
Year: 2019
Price: £950 plus delivery
Sometime
Medium: acrylic on panel
Measurements: 90 x 80cm
Year: 2019
Price: £950 plus delivery
Passage of Time
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 80 x 90cm Unframed
Price: SOLD
Embrace
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 80 x 90cm Unframed
Price: SOLD
Music of the Reef - section 2
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Measurements: 60 x 46cm Unframed
Price: £450 Plus Delivery
Round About Midnight
Medium: Acrylic on Birch Board
Measurements: 80 x 32cm Unframed
Year: 2019
Price: £550 Plus Delivery
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Biography
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 Art and continued with 20th century Art History through the Open University. Since then she has worked in 3D, relief and 2D work. There has been a long personal transition between depicting representational elements of landscape and the human figure, to one of employing pure abstraction where movement of suspended colour is of prime importance.
Artist Statement
My paintings are a journey of discovery from the very first mark until the final brushstroke. As the idea forms the painting develops and evolves over many months, incorporating the vibration and resonance of 'sound' and colour.
Both the large and small paintings are based on board using acrylic paint.
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, which are full of vitality and mood, some exuberant, others quiet and contemplative. The intense focus on colour, incorporating musical pitch, instrumentation and rhythmic subtlety leads to paintings of a rich 'sound' that resonate and continues to vibrate.
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 senses; when I look at the countryside, an object, a figure, I see a harmony of colours, the shapes, the tones, the shadows. I hear the numerous sounds - note the treble, the bass, the forte, the piano and the silence. I feel the rhythm, the pulse, the vibrations and the stillness. In my painting I absorb all these moments, accumulating in a painting in an abstract form.
My paintings are visions without objects requiring a response entirely dependent on the language of colour, rhythm and form.'