Stephen Maddocks

Artistic background

Stephen grew up in the sixties and right from an early age demonstrated a flare for wanting to be inquisitive and creative.
Always watching and learning from others, taking things to pieces to find out how they worked, he was able to wire a plug at the age of five, and from then on went on to learn all sorts of skills from basic woodwork and building small projects to even making a wind up gramophone which actually did play 78 rpm records!
His mother always said he took after his grandfather, her father, who could turn his hand to anything and although taking art at school, Stephen went on to become a master woodworker, running his own business until age 55 when he retired from this aspect of work and started his career as an artist.
He’s painted a variety of artworks and commissions, working from home in his purpose built workshop and studio, and is now working on the ideas of Entrapment and Freedom in which he feels very strongly about, wanting to portray these ideas through his artwork.
He also has other ideas too he’s working on, including one of reviving characters from the old musical films and moving them forward in time to our modern day. This idea stemming from his love of music, he being an accomplished pianist and writer and composer of music.
He feels his love of music and being an artist really go together well and sit hand in hand allowing for a wonderful opportunity to express one’s inner self.
He also enjoys writing poetry and creates beautiful artwork with accompanying poetry too, which helps express his thoughts behind the works and his love of the natural earth and all creation.