My name is Stephen Purdy, and I am an artist working primarily in the Foothills and Mountain regions of the Canadian Rockies. I paint outside when I can, and strive to bring the resonance of the natural world into my paintings. My mission statement is as follows:

“Armed with paint and a canvas, reveal the beauty that surrounds us enough, to make you cry.”

I trained and worked professionally as an Architect for 30 years, having always drawn and painted. For the past 3 years I have focused on painting. My main genre is Landscape painting.

My focus in art is in making the natural world ‘real’ in a plastic art form. Passionate about painting from the source, ‘en-plein air’, striving to bring the austere beauty, and associated emotional content of the natural world into pictorial form.

Stephen has received a number of awards and recognition for his work.