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steven heffer artist

abstracted images

Many of Heffer‘s landscape compositions hover between figuration and pure abstraction. This offers an inescapable reminder of the fact that human beings are psychologically constructed to try and ‘make sense of’ purely abstract markings by turning them into something that exists in the everyday world around them. Leonardo da Vinci advised young artists to look for new figurative compositions by studying the random markings on a crumbling wall. Heffer here reverses this process, by pushing what is observed towards the realm of abstraction.

Edward Lucie-Smith

Art Historian, Author & Critic

Headland I, II and III triptych | c.2011 | Oil on board | each panel 42 x 42 cm

Hollywell | c.2011 | Oil on board | 30.5 x 72.4 cm

Land/sea | c.2014 | Oil on canvas | 50.8 x 61 cm

Splashpoint | c.2014 | Oil on paper |

Seafront Seaford | c.2013 | Oil on paper |

Estuary series - grey and ochre | c.2015 | Oil on paper | 71.1 x 96.5 cm

Cliff abstract | c.2014 | Acrylic on canvas | 33 x 43.2 cm

Harbour | c.2014 | Oil on canvas | 61 x 81.3 cm

Under the White Bridge | c.2012 | Oil on board | 30.5 x 71.1 cm

Coast | c.2013 | Oil on paper | 96.5 x 71.1 cm

Blue breaker | c.2013 | Oil on canvas | 30.5 x 30.5 cm

Estuary series | 2013 | Oil on paper | 45.7 x 61 cm

Sunset over GYC | c.2009 | Oil on canvas | 26 x 26 cm

Winter passing | 2013 | Oil on board | 30.5 x 30.5 cm

From the sea at Birling Gap | c.2013 | Oil on canvas | 66 x 97 cm

Untitled | c.2011 | Oil on board | 26.7 x 53.3 cm

Holkham Beach | c.2002 | Oil on canvas | 53.3 x 81.3 cm

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