Intuitive paintings PART ONE by Stephen X. Arthur (SXA) Canada, 2021-2023

Stephen X. Arthur · 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

This Community Images item is a slideshow of a sequence of intuitive paintings (PART ONE) created over a two year period. They are presented in chronological order, beginning with initiation into painting -- TO VIEW FROM NEWEST TO OLDEST, USE THE BACK ARROW <. See  PART TWO  at this separate item:   https://archive.org/details/intuitive-paintings-stephen-arthur-canada-part-two-2023- See  PART THREE  at this separate item:  https://archive.org/details/intuitive-paintings-part-three-stephen-arthur-canada--2025- **NEW BOOK 2025:  Marvels - The Art Of Stephen X Arthur Hardcover, 10 x 8 in, 25 x 20 cm, 112 pages; 147 paintings with captions. DOWNLOAD PDF or flip through it at: https://archive.org/details/photo-book-marvels-the-art-of-stephen-x-arthur-2025/ Stephen X. Arthur a retired experimental/fine-art filmmaker/animator, screenwriter, and technical/scientific writer. He has an MFA degree in film production (USC) and an MSc degree in neurobiology (UBC). As an INTJ personality, his strength is introverted intuition; he is now an intuitive painter. Arthur creates contemporary Surrealist Symbolist paintings, where the spontaneous figurative images often produce a kind of cinematic narrative with unexpected meanings. His point of view often addresses universal themes with layers of ambiguity that make people think and feel beyond their conventional assumptions. Seven paintings were sold (numbers 16, 37, 87, 91, 105, 108, and 111). Influences include the pre-contemporary Surrealists and the “process painting” philosophy of Stewart Cubley (see REFERENCE). Solo exhibition:  Outsiders and Others Art Society gallery in Vancouver, 2023. Sales: Outsidersandothers.com/intuitive-painting-by-stephen-arthur . PRICING: Original paintings $300 including shipping. Pay by email transfer to sxarthur@shaw.ca or by PayPal. Returns will be refunded. Image licenses are FREE (Creative Commons: attribution, no derivatives). The water-based medium is tempera paint without egg, similar to gouache, and commonly called tempera or poster paint. Paper size is usually 20" x 26", some on canvas, see the Artist Catalogue. Paint is Chromatemp Artist's Tempera Paint by Chroma, Inc., USA. For a complete up-to-date CATALOGUE PDF with thumbnails, media, dimensions, and owners,  go to this separate item:    https://archive.org/details/inventory-with-thumbnails-paintings-by-s-arthur-numbered-chronological-2021-2023 To read  artist statements , see this item:  https://archive.org/details/artist-statement-and-bio-stephen-arthur-2023-vancouver For a  ten-minute video artist's talk  by Stephen Arthur in 2024, see the item: https://archive.org/details/stephen-arthur-what-are-you-looking-at-excerpt-silk-purse-exhibition-2024-zoom-artist-talk TITLES OF THE PAINTINGS: 1 Peninsula with Enigmas 2 Red Abstraction with Fence 3 Archetypes with Sharks 4 Self Portrait with Frogs and Melting Bird 5 The Vulnerable Man 6 Scene of Triangles 7 Cellular Abstraction 8 Assassination of the Leaf Blower 9 The Rear Guard 10 Anxiety 1: Sensory Overload   Collection Graham Thompson, Victoria BC 11 Anxiety 2: Dig for Your Shadow   Collection Graham Thompson, Victoria 12 Anxiety 3: Facing the Twisters with Impossible Legs 13 Anxiety 4: Inner Self-Portrait  14 Drowning in Desire 15 The Connecting Scenery 16 The Flower-Bud Embryos [SOLD]    Collection Joyce Arthur, Vancouver 17 The Aggregating Worms 18 Anxiety 5: Constrained 19 Libido 20 The Jungle Witnesses 21 Deep Black Composition  Collection Rob Wilde, Gibsons BC 22 The Embryo’s Imperative 23 Yellow Creatures on Blue   Collection Mark and Beverley Ellis, Vancouver 24 Celebrating What is to Come 25 The Blue and Yellow Spill Response 26 The Alien Encounter 27 Woman Over All 28 Trying to Purge Memories 29 The Migrating Whales   Collection Aimee Sturley, Owen Sound ON 30 Evolving Icons  Collection "White Angel", Italy 31 Straining to See 32 Wonders on the Road 33 The Circus of Liberation   Collection "White Angel", Italy 34 Floating Figures During the Outburst   Collection Rob Wilde, Gibsons BC 35 Pink Titillation 36 Out of the Ink 37 Primal Exposure [SOLD]    Collection Sam Seatt, Calgary AB 38 Confused Landscape 39 Bringing Light 40 The Rescuers 41 Protected Lovers   Collection Outsiders and Others Art Society, Vancouver 42 Sinking the Board of Directors   Collection Rob Wilde, Gibsons BC 43 Sleep Deprivation 44 The Banner 45 Discovering  C ollection Dr. Pierre Zakarauskas, Vancouver 46 Purification (Twin Heads) 47 The Arrival   Collection Graham Thompson, Victoria 48 Fire and Water 49 The Signal (Consolation and Celebration) 50 The Lure of Surrealism 51 The Turquoise Curtain (A Show for the Mutants) 52 Swimming in Red 53 Beam Me Up   Collection Dr. Scott Garrison, Edmonton (St. Albert) AB 54 Flight Paths, Paired 55 Mobbing Predators and Defending Territory (Paths No. 2) 56 This Violet World 57 The Day of the Chameleon 58 The Fire Works (a.k.a. Fireworks with Stealth Bombers) 59 Ephemeral Beings 60 Energy Totem  61 In My Neighborhood, the Origin of Life (Nick Lane) 62 Invisible Kingdom of Medical Suspense 63 Pigfooter 64 My Sleeping Machine  Collection Beverly Faryna, Vancouver 65 The Star of Bethlehem, New York 66 The Monoliths and Their New Visitor   67 Underneath Night 68 Garden of Awareness 69 Overcoming  Collection Kate L. Brunger, New Westminster BC 70 At the Second Outburst 71 (& painting #72); An Exorcism for Beverly's Vertigo (Diptych) 72 (#73)  Electric Indigo Incubator 73 (#74)  Relief   Collection Outsiders and Others Art Society, Vancouver 74 (#75)  The Blizzard of the World 75 (#76)  Falling and Catching (painted over for #88) 76 (#77)  Enduring Head (Interchanging)  Collection Joyce Arthur, Vancouver 77 (#78) Harvest Moon   Collection Aimee Sturley, Owen Sound ON 78 (#79) In the Teeth of Time 79 (#80) Late Ripeners   Collection Joyce Arthur, Vancouver 80 (#81) The Future is in the Icons We Champion (Diptych)  Collection Sam Seatt 81 (#82) The Remains That Are Missed (Cross-Section) 82 (#83) Emblem of Protection 83 (#84) The Flare-Up   Collection Mark and Beverley Ellis, Vancouver 84 (#85) Self-Parenting   85 (#86) Holding It Together 86 (#87) Holding It Together No. 2 [SOLD]   Collection Joachim Ayala, Burnaby BC 87 (#88) Catch a Falling Star   Collection Joachim Ayala, Burnaby BC 88 (#89) Energized Between Collection Mark and Beverley Ellis, Vancouver 89 (#90) Visions of Half-Sleep (Rorschach Test) 90 (#91) Rewilding (a.k.a. The Biodiversity Convoy)  [SOLD]   Private Collection, Van.  91  QR code: Showcase on Flickr.com 92  Exhibition poster, Outsiders and Others gallery Copyright (c) 2021 SXA -- Stephen X. Arthur, Vancouver Canada -- sxarthur@shaw.ca REFERENCE: Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Expression , Michele Cassou and Stewart Cubley, Penguin Group, 1996.