STEPHEN HANKS

About the Artist

Started as a art student in Woodstock, NY. Majored in Fine Arts (BFA) at Univ. of Colo. Got MS in Art Education at SUNY New Paltz. Tried independent artist life in Europe for a while. Then taught Drawing and Painting in Woodstock, NY, for six years. Left teaching for a commercial artist job with IBM. Helped to develop, sell, and deliver commercial graphics and image software for many years. Now painting, exhibiting, and teaching art professionally in MD. Have exhibited in a great number of professional painting art shows, galleries, and museums.

Artist's Statement

I have been painting watercolors and drawing professionally for over thirty-five years. I've been exhibiting and selling my work all that time in private galleries and museums (e.g. San Francisco, Denver, London, DC, MD). I also do commission work, including portraits, cityscapes, and family compositions. I do drawings in pencil, ink, pastel, and mixed-media. I have done commercial illustration work in a variety of published magazines and books. Most of my work is representational, with expressionist tendencies.