Stephen was born in Verdun, France.  He spent his younger years moving from country to country with his family. He lived in France, Germany and Puerto Rico. Later he relocated to the United States and has lived in a variety of places from California to New York, Florida to Mississippi and now Pennsylvania.  Through his travels, Stephen developed a deep appreciation for the outdoors and nature’s amazing palette. 

Stephen paints what moves him.   An inspirational setting is key in the creation process. The light on a meadow, a sunlit tree against a clear sky, the colors in a shadow & the vibration between two colors placed next to each other, are jewels of inspiration that are necessary in his landscapes.  A simple moment in time inspires him to squeeze and mix on my palette tubes of pure color.  After a thinly applied underpainting to lay out the composition, he generously applies the color using strokes and marks, building and modeling the scene.  Palette knives and various size brushes are the tools of which he builds the surface of each piece, mixing the paints while finding that perfect color.  Each painting takes on a mind of it’s own as I discover wonderful surprise within every painting as it reveals itself.

Stephen graduated from Millersville University in 1987 with a Bachelors of Fine Art degree in painting and figure drawing.  He was featured in Philadelphia Style Magazine and has received numerous honors for his talents. Stephen's paintings reside in homes and businesses from California, Florida, and throughout the northeast and Europe. He exhibits extensively at outdoor art shows in the northeast, midwest as well as galleries in Pennsylvania and Europe.