Steven Roe was born in Sheffield in 1957 and died at home in his beloved St Davids in 2020. He studied at Bath Academy of Art in the mid-1970s and went on to work as a graphic designer.  In the last decade of his life, Steven returned to drawing and painting, working carefully in his home studio to create detailed and deeply observed landscape and studies of the natural world.  Among one of the most popular is his painting of a winter storm arriving in Porthgain from the west, available here.  After a fishing trip with a friend, he entered what his wife affectionately called his “fish period”, producing a small but beautiful collection of studies of mackerel and lobster.  Although this body of work is modest in scale, the popularity of reproductions of Steven’s art has shown just how t resonates with people, and these works are now available through Rookwood.  

Steve’s pictures often began with close observation: a walk, a fishing trip, a creature seen in the garden, or a photograph taken before the moment disappeared.  He also relished a technical challenge.  

All profits from the sale of Steven’s artwork will go to the Paul Sartori Foundation, a Pembrokeshire hospice-at-home charity that supported him so well in his final weeks. https://paulsartori.org/