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This mixed media painting is on a 1 1/2" thick canvas. "One TwoGether" is framed in a gold-leaf floater frame and measures 50" wide and 62" high. 

As a fifth generation artist from South Carolina's Lowcountry and the son of two realist artists, it was natural for Stephen Elliott Webb to start painting coastal scenes, in a realistic style, at an early age. His first watercolor, a seascape, was painted at 10 years of age and sold a week later. He continued this rigid, controlled realism for the next 6 years, exhibiting in a local gallery and competing in local art festivals. "I yearned to explore a more contemporary style. These ambitions were not encouraged." By age 17, Stephen Elliott rebelled against the established genre. He left his childhood home in Beaufort, South Carolina and moved to Charleston to join the Impressionist art community, where he was both welcomed and encouraged.

"I developed a liberated, impressionistic style and brought it into the public eye during Piccolo Spoleto 1990 at age 20." Stephen Elliott was the youngest juried artist to participate in the celebrated Charleston art festival. He sold out in three days. "I was shocked at the acceptance of my work. I was experimenting in uncharted waters." His media had moved from watercolor only to adding casein and acrylic paints to his formula . This was his first movement towards combining opposing forces to create works of art.

In 1992 Stephen Elliott moved to Atlanta to study and join the ranks of Abstract Expressionists. Gallery wrapped canvas replaced watercolor paper and his images became fields of different media exploding into each other, repelling and attracting all at once. His process uses the forces of gravity, heat and cold along with a controlled sense of abandon. Within some of his works, you may find a forbidden flaw, an intentional slit or gash allowing the paints to be free, to flow without the hand of the artist obstructing the life of the media. 

Stephen Elliott Webb returned to the Lowcountry and Charleston in 2000. He creates his works in a 1957 Firehouse on the reclaimed Naval Shipyard along the Cooper River.

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