Steve Coffey
Original oil paintings | Biography | Video | Archive of sold work
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“Incoming”
30 x 36 – oil
$3100 (thick canvas wrap)
“The Shadow Visit”
30 x 40 – oil
$3290 (thick canvas wrap)
SOLD
“Changes”
36 x 40 – oil
$3575 (thick canvas wrap)
“The Waterway”
30 x 48 – oil
$3665 (thick canvas wrap)
“Freedom Cow”
10 x 10 – oil
$940 Unframed
“Elevator Drift”
9 x 12 – oil
$990 Unframed
SOLD
“Swirl Travel”
20 x 26 – oil
$2160 Unframed
“To the Hills”
10 x 10 – oil
$940 Unframed
“The Light Breaking”
40 x 48 – oil
$4135 (thick canvas wrap)
“Sky Tides”
20 x 40 – oil
$2820 (thick canvas wrap)
“Change”
16 x 20 – oil
$1690 Unframed
SOLD
“Night Road”
16 x 20 – oil
$1690 Unframed
“Travel Through”
12 x 12 – oil
$1130 Unframed
“Autumn House”
6 x 8 – oil
$580 Unframed
“Over the Rise”
30 x 48 – oil
$3665 Unframed
“Soft Field Walk”
24 x 36 – oil
$2820 Unframed
“Chinook Road”
24 x 36 – oil
$2820 Unframed
“Moon Over Farm”
16 x 40 – oil
$2630 (thick canvas wrap)
STEVE COFFEY
Artist’s Statement
“My work is elemental, with a focus on nature and the forces with which humanity has to contend. I search for a distinctive atmosphere from the immensity and grandeur of the plains to the human mark etched upon it. With both a plaintive and expressive palette of light and movement I draw both from my past, a process I call “Memory Polaroids”, and from the present day of all that surrounds me. My medium is oil on canvas.”
Steve Coffey has been an integral part of the western Canadian art and music scene for many years. He has curated travelling exhibitions, created large-scale public sculptures, taught college, and conducted many workshops and art residencies. His far-flung travels have taken him to places such as London, England and he has exhibited in Poznan City, Poland. Of the art in these major centers (along with favorites Berlin and Amsterdam), he speaks of being “visually exhausted and spiritually inspired” and he recalls the longing to return to the “intricate nuances and swirling beauty” of the Canadian landscape. He notes such influences as The Group Of Seven, Emily Carr and Alex Colville to name a few.
After finishing his formal training in 1990 (University of Regina, M.F.A.) Steve practiced as a metal sculptor in the very formalist setting of Edmonton. Eventually he gave in to his love of drawing and representation and was seduced by the immediacy and challenges of oil paint. He began exploring the medium full time in 1995.
Steve has exhibited extensively and his paintings can be found in numerous private and public collections throughout North America and Europe.
He is also a well-known western Canadian singer-songwriter with a number of recordings that have received critical acclaim. He and his band “The Lokels” perform regularly and can be heard on the radio airwaves from commercial to college to frequencies in between. He has also dabbled in films, one of which was purchased by the arts and entertainment channel Bravo! in 2007.
Steve makes his home in Vulcan, Alberta with his partner Barbara and their two daughters Lydia and Grace.
Group Events at White Rock Gallery
– Oct 2013: Elements (major group show)
– Dec 2021: Winter Group Event
– Dec 2020: Winter Group Event
– Dec 2019: Winter Small Works
– Dec 2018: The Season of Small
– Dec 2017: Winter Small Works
– Dec 2016: Winter Small Works
– Dec 2015: Winter Small Works
– Dec 2014: Winter Small Works
– Dec 2013: Winter Small Works
– Dec 2012: Winter Small Works
“Artist to Collect:
Steve Coffey”
Arabella Magazine
Fall 2012
Steve Coffey’s work and story are featured in the Winter 2010/2011 Issue of Magazin Art.
