Steve’s work is mainly concerned with painting landscape and testing and challenging his thoughts, ideas and tools within this subject. Through the activity of painting he is finding ways of expressing these thoughts, observations and also concerns in visual imagery to make memorable contemporary art.

A lot of his work is observational and drawn from modern life. Very large pieces of work he has attempted mirror and reflect our modern society; particularly commenting on personal concerns relating to consumerism. Through these paintings he is trying to transform this imagery from the consumer world into nightmarish, pseudo-apocalyptic scenes- a kind of modern day Bosch and Bruegel. In these paintings and drawings God becomes the celebrity, the church becomes the shopping centre, the individual becomes the mass. Nature in his work also has been transformed and given more intensity. It is brooding over man and man made objects.

Steve compiles his paintings from many different sources. He works from direct observational drawings and images from books and magazines, he likes to use juxtaposition in the sorts of imagery he paints 'it is satisfying the quirky narratives these create. He often plays with scale and the illusion of perspective for the pictures to be viewed like they could be walked in to or give a feeling of vertigo, creating a new world where my thoughts can be played out.'

In his paintings he uses a technique of building up layers of oil paint wet on wet. Imagery from reality is worked on so that it finds its own life in the physicality of oil paint on a canvas. In the past he has experimented with the very large canvasses being almost sculptural in their use of collage and found objects. He makes a satisfying painting surface, some areas are painted in relief next to areas of simple wash, scraping paint on/off with palette knifes, sometimes forcing mistakes and seeing something new in the smudge to take the painting further. Although most of the time the work is quite planned, there is always a element of uncertainty of a how a painting turns out.