Stephen Altena
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  • The Miss Philippa Savary Residency, Elton House, Bath UK (2018)
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FROLIC

Assembly Gallery/Redchurch Cafe March 4 - March 31
Opening reception Saturday March 4, 1-4pm

​In his new work Altena redeploys elements and motifs from pattern and decoration, wallpaper and textile samples to create a landscape for our own revelry.

Employing paintings and drawings, new and old, reconstructed and recycled, he creates a dappled forest glade ripe for a frolic. Layered fragments of paintings and coloured pencil drawings are suspended with ribbon and twine to evoke an atmosphere of delight and wistfulness. Sentiment and nostalgia, memory and dreams, pleasure and enchantment, decadence and innocence, commingle to blossom into a safe space for your tender
feelings.
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The Fox Hunt. 2023, oil on wood panel, 24x26 inches. SOLD
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Pink Revelry. 2023, oil on wood panel, 24x30 inches.
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Delighted. 2023, oil on wood panel, 12x12 inches.
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Spring Spree. 2023, oil on wood panel, 24x30 inches.
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The Dainty Woods. Mixed media, site specific installation.
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The artist in his Frolicking Suit. Opening reception.
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The Frolic Arch. Mixed media, site specific installation.
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The Frolic Arch. (detail)
  • Home
  • FROLIC 2023
  • Pretty Things 2021
  • In The Shadow Garden
  • Quarantine Garden 2020
  • Paintings 2020
  • Upper Canadian Living: Montgomery's Inn 2019
  • Mckenzie House (2019)
  • The Miss Philippa Savary Residency, Elton House, Bath UK (2018)
  • In Bloom (2018)
  • Another Spring (2018)
  • Luxury Scarves (2016)
  • Wallpaper (2016)
  • Artist CV
  • About