Steven Vincent series of paintings

Elasmosaurus
Lobster from Hell
Fan Tail
2008

Location: Library Information Common, main floor, just inside the front door

These three pieces were created by Steven Vincent while he was a third-year visual art student in 2008.

From the artist: "For the past two years I have been creating mythologies and story about creatures, monsters, and animals through the use of different media. Important artist influences for me are primitive art from France and Australia, west coast Haida art, and Australian x-ray cave art. I have always been fascinated with prehistoric creatures, such as dinosaurs, and how beautiful they must have looked. I wanted to create cave art painted by some unknown culture on weird coloured stone not found in this world, showing huge prehistoric monsters that lived in the deep parts of sea.

I was born on the 20th of May in 1986 at Red Deer. Growing up on a farm at Pine Lake instilled in me a fascination for rural life and nature. I graduated from Lindsay Thurber High School in 2004. I'm in my third year of visual arts at Red Deer College, majoring in painting, but I’m interested in all types of art. My goals are to keep trying different artistic mediums and to continue developing the mythology which I have been working on for the last two years."

For more information about the Library Art, contact Anne Marie Watson at 403.342.3402 or via email at annemarie.watson@rdc.ab.ca.