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Nancy Dodds Gallery 7th and San Carlos P.O. Box 6016 Carmel, CA 93921 831-624-0346 ndg@nancydoddsgallery.com |
Stephen McMillan Throughout his life, Stephen McMillan has been inspired and sustained by the natural world and has spent much of his time outside. Whether it's a bike ride in the Sonoma countryside, or a month-long backpacking trip in the High Sierra, he is renewed and invigorated by being in and moving through landscape. It is this sense of renewal he seeks to share with others through his art. Born In Berkeley, California on December 21, 1949, he was raised in a home that had a sweeping view of the San Francisco Bay. This scene kindled his interest in landscape and was one of his earliest drawing subjects. He had his first one man show when he was sixteen. Steve studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and for one year at Hornsey College of Art In London England, where he concentrated on Sculpture. It was at Santa Cruz in 1969, that Steve was first introduced to etching. Since he received his BFA from UCSC in 1975, he has focused on creating aquatint etchings of wilderness landscapes, drawn freehand from photographs he takes. His search for interesting images has taken him all over California, the American West, and to remote regions of Finland, Australia, New Zealand, and Nepal. In the summer of 1988 he backpacked the 212-mile John Muir Trail, starting in Yosemite Valley and ending at the summit of Mount Whitney. From this hike, he created a series of seventeen aquatints. From 1975 to 1979 he worked at Graphic Arts Workshop in San Francisco. For most of the years from 1979 to 1992 he was an artist in residence at Kala Institute in Berkeley, where he taught classes in printmaking, and wrote three technical articles about aquatint etching. In 1992 he moved to Petaluma where he continues to create images of the landscapes that he loves. EDUCATION: University of California, Santa Cruz. BFA degree, 1975. BA degree, 1972. Hornsey College of Art. London, England. 1970-1971.
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The Nancy Dodds Gallery
