Farewell Friend – Perspectives from The Artist’s Road

Farewell Pal

Vale Graeme Stevenson OAM (1958 – 2022)

   A spirit larger sized than life has left us.

   Graeme Stevenson was a amazing human being. He experienced massive resourceful energies and the perseverance to place his ideas about artwork and the world into action. We achieved him when he arrived at our studios a person August day with his assistant, Sophia Stacey, alongside with baggage of filming and lights products. We have been right away impressed with his kindness and sincere curiosity in our perform and our lives as artists. Both equally Graeme and Sophia exuded real enthusiasm and friendliness.

   We straight away strike it off. Kindred spirits. They built the interview and filming method entertaining and full of laughter. This was a completely diverse type of job interview experience. Particular. Additional like hanging out with one’s near pals. Just before we realized it, they had been concluded, packed up and ready to go. They have been drained from traveling from Australia and throughout The united states, interviewing artists along the way. It hasn’t normally occurred in our life that we have achieved a person like Graeme. Prompt trust. He was that sort of particular person. And, he was an achieved and nicely-regarded easel painter on prime of it all!

   We asked him why he was burning up so substantially power and probable painting time to film and generate his Color in Your Lifetime Tv sequence. He reported that he was helped alongside in his vocation by another person early on, and when he requested that man or woman how he could ever repay him, he was told to “just aid other artists like yourself”. So he started to shell out it forward and we and hundreds of other artists who received to take part in the program and to know him a very little, are the beneficiaries of that generosity of spirit. The planet needs much more persons like Graeme Stevenson. He is missed.

   We interviewed Graeme about his personalized artwork two months ago. You can see that interview and some of his paintings right here.

   As it suggests on the Color in Your Life web site, Graeme’s eyesight was “to create a library of the minds of artists, preserving a electronic file of inventive spirit, tradition, and strategies for potential generations.”