Steve Bonner is an English artist who spends his time in the Caribbean painting the islands he has come to know and love. Two bodies of work are featured here: one of oil paintings and one of watercolours.

Steve Bonners Caribbean Oil Paintings

Although oil paints are the artists preferred medium, especially for his figure and portrait painting, his Caribbean work has previously been almost entirely watercolour. With this new series, featuring by and large a moodier aspect of Barbados, Bonner has returned to the smell of turpentine and linseed oil. 

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Each thumbnail is a link to page with a larger illustration and details of the painting.

All the paintings in the 'Many Moods' collection are available as Signed Limited Edition Giclée Reproductions.

Steve Bonners Caribbean Watercolours

Most of these paintings are of Barbados, its landscape and architecture, but a few are of Tobago, the island which was the artists introduction to the West Indies. Many are sold but a few, especially those not yet exhibited, are still available. Almost all are available as a reproduction.

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Steve Bonner was born in Huntingdon, in the United Kingdom, in 1951. He is a self-taught figurative artist and largely eschews the art establishment, exhibiting rarely. For one thing, he explains, he is not prepared to put up any longer with all the stress and emotion involved in putting on a exhibition. It is, he says, "like hanging your soul out to dry". Having painted for pleasure throughout a working life, spent mostly as a graphic and poster artist, Bonner made the decision back in the mid-nineties that fine art had to have priority, that it was all or nothing. And it's often been next to nothing: life for many professional painters is a roller-coaster of success and struggle, but it is a good life, and one he wouldn't swap for the world. Steve Bonner is represented in the Caribbean by The Gallery of Caribbean Art, Speightstown, Barbados.

He has been published for over 25 years and both originals and reproductions of his work can be found in collections all over the world.

Click here to visit the website featuring Steve Bonner's Figure Paintings.

Steve Bonner can be contacted at: PO Box. 181, Petersfield, GU32 9AB, United Kingdom.