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Fine Art Limited Editions The first two Greenwich Workshop Fine Art Limited Editions by Steve Hanks will be released in April of 2006. |
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A New Beginning by Steve Hanks "Any healing process can be a lengthy one," says Steve Hanks. "Often it can be helped by attempting to visualize the future. Such is the inspiration for A New Beginning. This is, in fact, the final painting in a series of three that have used the ascent of the staircase to track this woman's passage. By reaching the landing at the top, she has completed her growing process and is ready to move on. This staircase reminds us to take things in life one step at a time, that a promise of reward and satisfaction-the top of the staircase-and a new view of the world around you, is a situation you can help create for yourself. I used a different model for this painting than I did in the first two, to further illustrate the metamorphosis: you are not the same person at the top of the staircase that you were at the bottom." Join us in welcoming Steve Hanks to the Greenwich Workshop family of artists. We are pleased to offer A New Beginning as one of his first fine art limited editions, an offering even more symbolic as we too look forward to a long and beautiful road ahead. Greenwich Workshop Fine Art MasterWork™ Giclee Canvas 20" w x 40"h. (unstretched) 100 s/n. $850 US | $1025 CDN | £550 | €830 Shipping in April Ask About Availability Greenwich Workshop Fine Art Limited Edition Print |
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Although teachers often cited his artistic ability, Steve Hanks' main interest while growing up around San Francisco was sports. As a young teenager, Hanks pursued surfing and tennis with passion. He eventually tired of a steady diet of competitive tennis, but continued to surf, finding a spiritual connection with the ocean. "Surfing had a strong influence on my paintings," he says. "The ocean often appears in my work, because I have such strong feelings for it." Although it was apparent early on that he had talent, Hanks refused to do the required assignments in his high school art class and earned a grade of C in the class. "To prove I was good, I did a one-man show at the high school and sold my first painting to another art teacher," he says. After high school Hanks enrolled in summer session commercial
art courses at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. "The only way
I could convince my parents to let me go was to say I was going into commercial
art," he says. "I didn't even know what that was!" He did
well in his commercial art classes, but it was a life drawing class that
captured his interest. He focused his energy on the study of anatomy and
figure drawing and transferred into the California College of Arts and
Crafts in Oakland, California. He graduated in the 1960s with a Bachelor
of Fine Arts degree, and then moved back to New Mexico in search of a
home art gallery. Steve Hanks' paintings are much more than endearing images of women and children. Rather than conveying a specific message through his paintings, Hanks prefers to explore memories and emotions. "My paintings speak to the vulnerability that we all feel from time to time. They evoke nostalgia, transporting us back in time," Hanks says. "All art is an escape to somewhere you want to be or a feeling you want to have. People see different things in my paintings because we all have different backgrounds and feelings." Hanks highly collected nudes convey an introspective solitude that prompts the viewer to think about his or her own life and path. "Women occupy a special niche in my sensitivity. They express more storytelling ability. There's more magic in them," he says. Art jurors began recognizing the quality of his
work in 1973. Steve Hanks won the Arts for the Parks Marine Art Award
of Excellence in 1990 and 1994, and has been one of the Arts for the Parks
top 100 artists since 1989. In 1991, Steve Hanks received the National
Watercolor Society Merit Award and the National Academy of Western Art
awarded him the Gold Medal in 1992. Since 1993, he has been one of U.S.
Art Magazine's top ten American artists. When the Pacific Rim show in
Seattle, WA decided to open the show up to a wider variety of art in 1999,
they selected Steve as Artist of the Year. Steve was one of five winners
selected to the U.S. Art Hall of Fame 2000. He was named as one of the
top 25 selling artists in the June, 2002 issue of Decor magazine. The
7th Annual Andre Agassi Grand Slam for Children chose Steve as their Feature
Artist in 2002. |
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