About …
What you see is not what you see
but who you are
Fernando Pessoa
About the artist …
Born somewhere just outside London in 1970. Lived in Japan, Portugal and Australia. Travelled through Africa and Asia. Educated in Philosophy at Liverpool University. Self taught artist, started drawing at the age of 25. Now living in Donostia San Sebastian in the Basque Country.
ABOUT THE ART …
Fifteen years in development, most of this work originates from an encounter with the islamic geometric tradition displayed in the great monuments of Southern Spain, especially the Alhambra and the great mosque of Cordoba. The sacred fire encoded in these designs inspired me to believe that here was a journey to be had amongst pure line and color, searching out a balance between clarity and complexity, two powerful lenses, adjusted to focus the attention, to feel what you see. Submitting the riggor of the tradition to the flow of improvisation, developing an aesthetic I would describe as Arab jazz.
For me the question of abstract art should be, not what is it, but what does it actually do.
INTERVIEWS
Art Version I Stephen Webb Interior #01 Sept 2025 (Spanish)
VERSIÓN DE ARTE I Stephen Webb Dimensions 2025 (Spanish)
ART RESUME
Sep 2025 Expo: Interior #01, Ernest Lluch K.E, Donostia San Sebastian.
May 2025 Mural. Moquette Art Space. Rekalde, Donostia.
Apr 2025 Expo: Dimensioak. Okendo Kultur Etxea.
Dec 2024 Expo: PaperCuts. Loiola Kultur Extea, Donostia San Sebastian.
Jun 2022 Mural project. Martutene Apain. Martutene, San Sebastian.
Feb 2022 Artist residency. Kutxa Kultur. Tabakalera, Donostia.
Jul 2021 Mural: Columnas. Plaza Latsari, Loiola, San sebastian.
Jun 2020 Private comission. Internal mural. Donostia San Sebastian.
Feb 2020 Patio Mural. Loiola Kultur house, Donostia San Sebastian.
Sep 2019 Mural project. Loiola Apain. Donostia San Sebastian.
Jun 2019 Temporary mural. Olatu Talka Street Festival. San Sebastian.
Nov 2016 Exhibition. Garoa Kultur Lab. Donostia San Sebastian.
The rose has no why.
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