Steven has in the past three years returned to painting after a break of fifty years, when he was at school. Originally from London, Steven, his wife Terrie and his two children have lived in Berowra NSW for 31 years.
Professionally Steven has been a Teacher, Stockbroker and Journalist. Starting painting again during Covid, he has concentrated on acrylic impressions of local sunsets, international bridges and worldwide landscapes. He paints on both stretched canvas and paper. Steven has been fortunate enough have had Six individual exhibitions between 2022/2024. The first one at The Depot, Dangar Island and then followed by one at The Cottage Brooklyn. Both of these displays ran for five weeks. Steven has also had a display feature at the Prince of Wales Hospital Randwick for four weeks.. It included twenty acrylic artworks on canvas and in frames 2023. In late November 2023 ,Steven had the first of several one day ‘Pop-up’ exhibition locally at Illoura Community Space Berowra.
He paints as Steve Quilty -CartoonImpressionist. His art mainly involves acrylic on paper of stretched canvas. Most would agree that Steven's art is bold, colourful and vibrant.
Recently Steven has travelled through Europe for three months using the places visited for inspiration producing many new works on paper. Steven loves to paint local sunsets, Sydney Harbour scenes and International rivers, bridges and buildings.