NORMAN STEVENS ARA 1937-1988

Norman Stevens was a printmaker, painter, draughtsman and teacher, born in Bradford. He studied at Bradford Regional College of Art 1952-57. 
 Between 1957 and 1960 he was at The Royal College of Art where his teachers included Ceri Richards. 
Stevens won the Lloyd Landscape Scholarship and Abbey Minor Travelling Scholarship. In 1975 he won the Chichester Arts Festival prize, in 1979 he gained awards at the British International Print Biennale and in 1983 at the John Moores exhibition in Liverpool. 
From 1960-67 Stevens taught painting at Manchester College of Art. In 1965 he undertook a 7,000 mile Greyhound bus tour of America recording in photographs and drawings. He also had a solo show at the Mercury Gallery. He taught at Maidstone College of Art 1967-70, Hornsey 1970-73 and 1974-5 Stevens was Gregory Fellow at the University of Leeds. 
The 1970s saw Stevens international reputation grow and he was increasingly admired for his superb technical ability as a printmaker, mastering such unfashionable techniques as the mezzotint. His The Shadowed Garden Prints are in the Victoria and Albert Museum collection and the Tate Gallery and Arts Council also hold his work. Clapboard houses, Venetian blinds, Stonehenge and landscape dappled by light and shadow were typical Stevens’s subjects.

A Corner of Crathes Castle Garden                Screen print A/P x/xii

The Stilt Garden Hidcote                  Etching &Aquatint A/P

The Egyptian Garden, Biddulph Grange      Etching &Aquatint A/P

The Fox, Knightshayes                Etching &Aquatint A/P sold