Member since Friday 28th Oct, 2011
Born in Portsmouth, Alan Stephens trained as an electronics engineer, and took up painting as a hobby in 1974. In 1990, he started painting full time, and has had a regular stream of commissions for his work, which are mainly portraits, although any subject is undertaken.
His landscapes are usually local views around his home in St Andrews, and he mainly uses oils, but also pastel or acrylic, depending on the size of the painting and the subject matter.
His work is represented in private collections around the world.
Alan was a demonstrator at the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition at the Design Centre, Islington London, and was a tutor at the local Adult Education Centres in Oxfordshire, and is now a tutor with the St Andrews Art Club, where at the moment, he is the Vice President
Alan has won many prizes throughout his career. He was a runner-up in the 1992 national competition for acrylic paintings, organised by the Liquitex Company.
and recently won the Presidents Prize at the St Andrews Art Club Summer exhibition in 2007 and again in 2008 and 2011, for the most votes by the general public.
In 2009 he won the Sybil Seath Prize, the painting was used on the Poster for the Summer Exhibition and also on the front cover of the July/August issue of the "St Andrews in Focus\"" Magazine?. "
