Capturing 'the fleeting moment'
Stedham’s work is on view at Santa Fe’s Blue Rain Gallery. Her life resembles a tornado of action. A professional artist for 35 years, she hikes, rides horses, fly fishes and teaches from her Railyard studio. A world traveler and rock climber for 14 years, she even reached the pinnacle of Mount Kenya. Her paintings are at once gestural and carefully composed renditions of form, space and light. The artist’s trajectory into landscape painting was circuitous. Classically trained, she began as a realist figural painter before she deconstructed the body into more of an Abstract Expressionis...
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