Farewell Friend – Perspectives from The Artist’s Road

Farewell Friend

Vale Graeme Stevenson OAM (1958 – 2022)

   A spirit larger than daily life has remaining us.

   Graeme Stevenson was a outstanding man or woman. He experienced huge creative energies and the dedication to put his concepts about artwork and the entire world into action. We satisfied him when he arrived at our studios one particular August day with his assistant, Sophia Stacey, together with bags of filming and lighting machines. We were right away amazed with his kindness and honest curiosity in our operate and our life as artists. Both Graeme and Sophia exuded authentic enthusiasm and friendliness.

   We straight away hit it off. Kindred spirits. They created the interview and filming system fun and entire of laughter. This was a entirely distinctive type of interview knowledge. Exclusive. More like hanging out with one’s shut friends. In advance of we knew it, they ended up finished, packed up and completely ready to go. They have been fatigued from touring from Australia and throughout The us, interviewing artists alongside the way. It has not frequently occurred in our lives that we have fulfilled anyone like Graeme. Quick rely on. He was that sort of individual. And, he was an attained and very well-acknowledged easel painter on top of it all!

   We asked him why he was burning up so significantly electricity and probable portray time to film and make his Colour in Your Life Television sequence. He said that he was assisted together in his vocation by a person early on, and when he requested that man or woman how he could at any time repay him, he was explained to to “just assistance other artists like yourself”. So he started to fork out it ahead and we and hundreds of other artists who received to take part in the system and to know him a minimal, are the beneficiaries of that generosity of spirit. The globe wants far more persons like Graeme Stevenson. He is missed.

   We interviewed Graeme about his individual artwork two months ago. You can see that interview and some of his paintings here.

   As it claims on the Color in Your Existence website, Graeme’s eyesight was “to create a library of the minds of artists, preserving a digital file of inventive spirit, tradition, and techniques for potential generations.”