CHRIS STEVENSON – Painter
For many years I have been intimately involved with farming on family cattle properties in NSW. Just like humans, cows can be social or bloody-minded, sensitive or stubborn, suspicious or nosy. The shape of cows, both individually and as a herd, invite me to play with their forms within the rectangle of canvas or paper. I am also attracted to the texture and rhythm of their hide which seems to mimic the landscape surrounding them. To quote from the first few lines of a poem I wrote:
“Up close cows are landscapes…….. Those shorthairs on the belly……..  are the grasses of paddocks.”

Chris talks about the use of colour in her paintings

CHRIS STEVENSON – Painter
"For many years I have been intimately involved with farming on family cattle properties in NSW. Just like humans, cows can be social or bloody-minded, sensitive or stubborn, suspicious or nosy. The shape of cows, both individually and as a herd, invite me to play with their forms within the rectangle of canvas or paper. I am also attracted to the texture and rhythm of their hide which seems to mimic the landscape surrounding them. To quote from the first few lines of a poem I wrote:
“Up close cows are landscapes…….. Those shorthairs on the belly……..  are the grasses of paddocks.”
Chris talks about the use of colour in her paintings.