Artist Steven Quartly In Person

Online, August 11, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Meet Steven Quartly a Painter of Romance & Emotion
View his new collection of original oil paintings and hand enhanced limited editions on canvas Hand embellished by the artist.

The scenes he paints are painted Plein Air, other times recreated from his photographs and sketches, inspired from his travels to Europe as well as England with Natalie. He has now widened his horizons with works set in Hawaii and tropical regions. He attributes Natalie as instrumental to the running of his self-publishing business. It is she who handles the distribution side, working with the galleries that show his oil paintings and hand-embellished giclees on canvas. The artist himself is very involved in the printmaking process. Working with the best ateliers in the US, Steven does the color proofing as well as hand-embellishing, and he also applies the coatings.

Family life is important to Steven. He and Natalie have four children; their home is in North Tustin, CA, not far from the Pacific Ocean where Steven loves to surf. A few mornings a week he will get up at 5 a.m. and plunge into the waves, alone or with friends. "I have surfed for years. It is my escape. I am healthy mentally and physically when surfing." By 8 a.m. he is back home, in his studio, a space filled with light that he and Natalie had custom-built on their property. Known for his prolificacy, completing as many as 120 paintings a year, he works until 5 p.m. when he joins the family for dinner, often returning to paint into the night. As he works he listens to music, maybe the classics, Bach or Schubert are his favorites, or the romance of such as Andrea Bocelli. "I do tend to be a melancholy type of personality, so there is a little bit of mystery to my paintings. Yet, I want to convey a happy feeling-joy and hope. There is a lot of negativity in the world and, as an artist; I believe we have a duty to bring hope into people's lives." Religion is important to Steven. "I am thankful to live where I am, free to do what I love. As much as I enjoy visiting other places, I love coming home."