Stephen Remick

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Green, 2009, by Stephen Remick. Acrylic on canvas, 60” x 72”. Copyright © 2013 Stephen Remick. Used by permission of the artist.

Stephen Remick was the February/March 2014 Artist Spotlight in Professional Artist magazine. Remick, a painter in Dartmouth, Mass., didn’t want to just tell his children that they could be anything when they grew up. He wanted to show them, even if it meant living a double life — painting houses by day and canvases by night. In his representational paintings, he seeks to unearth new meaning in everyday objects such as woodpiles, cellar holes, stonewalls and the 300 acres of nature preserve beyond his home. Inspired by Robert Frost’s Mending Wall poem, he painted a series of crumbling stonewalls. “These sections, when isolated from the rest of the wall, had a life of their own, with relationships developing between stones, each stone depending on the other,” he said. For more on Remick and his work, visit www.facebook.com/stephen.remick.art.