As a child, Steve O'Connell loved to paint and draw and from a young age was always determined to have a career as an artist. Unable to afford to go to Art College, He taught himself to paint and draw in various media, including oil, pastel and pencil and by learning from artist’s instruction manuals and self-teaching books from his local library.Having to leave school at age sixteen He had to get work to help support the family as his father had left home and money was in short supply. He managed to get a job as a junior commercial artist but found this work unfulfilled and creatively suffocating.Eventually he left and managed to start his own company selling his original paintings at London’s famous Apple Market in the heart of Covent Garden where he still has a stall to this day.
Steve O'Connell bases his art on dancers, from young children to adults. He also looks at ballroom dancers which is the main reason why I am drawn to him as an artist seeing as it gives me a new outlook on how ballroom dancers can be presented.
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