Nature’s Little Wonders

Stephen Delaney

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Stephen Delaney is a Perth based Irish born artist. In 1994 he was awarded a scholarship by the Pastel Society of America and spent over five years studying painting at Parsons School of Design, The Finishing School in New York and various other art schools.    Stephen has had exhibitions in Ireland, USA and

Australia. The artist has an ongoing demand for commissioned paintings and works in the areas of interior design.

To see a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a

wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

and eternity for an hour.     William Blake

Nature’s Little Wonders is Stephen’s endeavour into revealing – after intense observation – the minutiae of nature i.e. insects and mini-beasts, feathers, leaves  and  seedpods.   They  are  little

wonders all around us. A closer look and a whole world opens up. Stephen captures this splendidly on canvas in oil and acrylic paint. Lifting the veil, and thereby revealing its exquisiteness. By enlarging his subjects manyfold onto a white canvas, he creates for the viewer the ambience of looking at a curio painting of time gone by, except in a modern, fresh way.