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The Wild Bunch
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Gentle Giant
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The Thorn Blooms
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Tower of Flower
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Desert Dusk
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Steve Hastings says that he starts with nature, but he’s not painting nature. “Cezanne said what he was trying to paint was nature’s eternity and I think that what we really are is not known to us, it’s like behind us,” Hastings says. “Even though it's a cactus and a scene it’s more like a portrait. I guess I’m painting myself. I’m just doing the work, but IT tells me what to do.” The IT of which he speaks is God, the Universe, a great Creative power. “I say It because God is not a man or a woman, it’s formless, and the universe is inside it,” he explains.
He grew up in El Paso, Texas, where he lives today. He studied art at the University of Texas, El Paso, and visited Santa Fe in the 1970s where he first saw the work of Georgia O’Keeffe and fell in love with her paintings.
The images of desert flowers and blooming cacti speak to him. They tell him they want to be painted, but not in the form that he found them. He melds them together to create an individual painting. Hastings says his work is Magical Realism–A reminder of the enchantment and ominousness of the every day, nestled inside art and literature. He paints the natural world but with elements of surrealism and dreams in the finished product. It’s a cactus and a cloud, but something else is happening.
“When I paint things I know I did it but I don’t always remember how I did it. It tells me how to mix the colors. I don’t write it down. They are like happenings they happen to me. When I flow it turns off the default mode network which is the ego. It’s like making love, you're ego goes away and you two become one thing, and then you come back. The essence is watching. If you let the love out you’ll be amazed.”
Steve Hastings says that he starts with nature, but he’s not painting nature. “Cezanne said what he was trying to paint was nature’s eternity and I think that what we really are is not known to us, it’s like behind us,” Hastings says. “Even though it's a cactus and a scene it’s more like a portrait. I guess I’m painting myself. I’m just doing the work, but IT tells me what to do.” The IT of which he speaks is God, the Universe, a great Creative power. “I say It because God is not a man or a woman, it’s formless, and the universe is inside it,” he explains.
He grew up in El Paso, Texas, where he lives today. He studied art at the University of Texas, El Paso, and visited Santa Fe in the 1970s where he first saw the work of Georgia O’Keeffe and fell in love with her paintings.
The images of desert flowers and blooming cacti speak to him. They tell him they want to be painted, but not in the form that he found them. He melds them together to create an individual painting. Hastings says his work is Magical Realism–A reminder of the enchantment and ominousness of the every day, nestled inside art and literature. He paints the natural world but with elements of surrealism and dreams in the finished product. It’s a cactus and a cloud, but something else is happening.
“When I paint things I know I did it but I don’t always remember how I did it. It tells me how to mix the colors. I don’t write it down. They are like happenings they happen to me. When I flow it turns off the default mode network which is the ego. It’s like making love, you're ego goes away and you two become one thing, and then you come back. The essence is watching. If you let the love out you’ll be amazed.”