Chantelle Stean

My work moves steadily toward a single subject: light. Over the years my paintings have travelled from the faceted, constructed forms of my early figurative work into something far more open — luminous atmospheres in which colour, rather than line, carries the feeling.
My collections trace that journey. The cubist intimacy of Eternal Facets gives way to the gestural turbulence of Light and Pressure, where gold breaks through dark, pressing masses. In Just a Little Longer, drifting moons and supernatural violets hold onto the last of the day, while Quiet Light grounds the work in disciplined seascape and cloud study. Atmospheric Horizons lets those horizons soften and dissolve, and Luminous Cores arrives at pure abstraction — each canvas organised around a glowing centre of warmth.