{"id":34,"date":"2011-02-01T12:31:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T20:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2026-04-27T17:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:56:59","slug":"art-of-robert-darcy-stevan-and-diana-stevan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/art-of-robert-darcy-stevan-and-diana-stevan\/","title":{"rendered":"ART"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Art<\/h4>\n

Back in 1995, my husband, Robert D’Arcy Stevan, and I went to San Miguel de Allende, an art colony in Mexico for three months. We enrolled in a program at an international art school, The Instituto de Allende. He studied the lost wax process in bronze sculpting. I began my love affair with painting.<\/p>\n

I was fortunate enough to have as a teacher, Dennis Pohl, graduate from Pratt Art Institute in New York. He taught me to see both the the spaces and the object. He showed me how to draw with a brush and play like Cezanne on the canvas. So much of that creative journey mirrors my writing one. Both require the artist or writer to step back from time to time to examine their work, and be willing to alter it in order to achieve something pleasing to the senses.<\/p>\n

This one below was totally unexpected. \u00a0Acrylic, 48″ wide by 24″ high, called FLOWER GARDEN.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The following, INTO THE BLUE <\/strong>was more happenstance. I seem to have flailed on the canvas, not knowing where I was going, just guessing at some harmonious composition.<\/p>\n

\"art\"<\/a>Acrylic, 36″ x 36″<\/p>\n

This painting, TRIO, won first place, The Award of Excellence<\/strong>, in the Campbell River Art Gallery Members’ Show in 2001. Painted with water colour and oil sticks, it’s an organic piece that I was very happy with.<\/p>\n

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This one, a monoprint, was selected for a book on poetry having to do with MADNESS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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I took a wonderful class with artist, Bob Sheridan, part of a Campbell River artists’ group, and did the following monoprint LILY<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Robert’s Art<\/h4>\n

My husband, Robert D’Arcy Stevan, has a true artist’s soul.<\/p>\n

I’ve watched him work over the years. It’s as if the material speaks to him and he intuitively responds.<\/p>\n

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Robert D’Arcy Stevan at a gallery in Courtenay. B.C.<\/p>\n

Robert’s sculpture, NESTING\u00a0<\/strong> out of Brazilian Steatite, won an Honourable Mention at the first art show he entered, Community Arts Council of Vancouver juried exhibition 1995. The piece below is another version of the same theme, but much larger, 18″ by 18″.<\/p>\n

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Nesting ii by Robert D’Arcy Stevan<\/p><\/div>\n

EVE<\/strong> is an example of the figurative pieces Robert has sculpted. Also, of Brazilian Steatite.<\/p>\n

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Eve by Robert D’Arcy Stevan<\/p>\n

Robert’s sculpture, MADONNA.<\/strong>was carved out of Honduran Mahogany, 18″ high, 5 1\/2″ wide, and 1 1\/2″ deep.<\/p>\n

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Madonna by Robert D’Arcy Stevan<\/p>\n

MOTHER EARTH<\/strong>, Brazilian Steatite, 15″ by 8″, by Robert D’Arcy Stevan was inspired by his daughters, who were breast feeding at the time.<\/p>\n

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Mother Earth by Robert D’Arcy Stevan<\/p><\/div>\n

MASK <\/strong>is carved out of Alabaster, 10″ by 6.5″. Robert felt he lucked out when that beautiful charcoal grey streak appeared as he carved.<\/p>\n

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Mask by Robert D’Arcy Stevan<\/p><\/div>\n

ETERNITY <\/strong>is carved out of B.C. Marble, and stands about 12″ high in our garden.<\/p>\n

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Eternity by Robert D’Arcy Stevan<\/p><\/div>\n

SOLO<\/strong>, made out of concrete, 53″ high by 17″ wide is the largest piece Robert has carved.<\/p>\n

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Solo by Robert D’Arcy Stevan<\/p><\/div>\n

BENT GLORY<\/strong> is a bronze sculpture, 5 1\/2″ high, 12″ long. It was one of two selected for a National Juried Exhibition by the Canadian Society of Artists.<\/strong> It was held at the John B.Aird Gallery in Toronto, Ontario 1996.<\/p>\n

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Bent Glory, bronze by Robert D’Arcy Stevan<\/p><\/div>\n

Current Work<\/h4>\n

After years of sculpting, Robert turned his attention to carving and studied with a Master Indigenous carver. He’s made some masks and some oars, as well as a cedar panel.<\/p>\n

Moving forward, he’s now whittling the most adorable gnomes and other characters out of wood.<\/p>\n

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