Reviews

I have just been on the ferry
from Sandbanks and there was a poster with your picture of the red boat .
I was completely transfixed and couldn't look away ! I've since been
googling all references to you and think I have fallen truly madly
deeply in love with your work !

My husband and I have been
collecting Stephen’s work for years. We love how Stephen evokes time,
place and feeling in each work, and of the location or situation that
inspired him. Whatever the image, the sincerity behind the work shines
through - and grants you a fresh vision each time you look - which we never tire of doing!

Dear Stephen,

RE: Gully’s Place Trust Fund Launch 

I am writing on behalf of the
Gully’s Place committee and Poole Hospital Charity to thank you for
donating your ‘Sunrise’ painting to Gully’s Place.

It was lovely to meet you at the
launch and your donation was very generous indeed. We have decided that a painting as beautiful as this should have pride of place in the Gully’s Place Suite here on the Childrens Unit in Poole Hospital.

With your permission I would like to put a small plaque next to the painting that says.

“Donated to Gully’s Place by Stephen Bishop The Dorset Artist “

The launch was a great success
within the fundraising community and the indications are showing that we will be able to potentially change the lives of children and families
with palliative needs across Dorset.

That is amazing thank you.

It is incredible what you raised and thank you so much, you truly are a star!

Dear Stephen,

Thank you once again for your
very generous donation to the Planet Purbeck fundraising art auction. We were delighted with the response and with the interest from the local community.

In total we sold 35 of the 42
lots, and made £3,633.50. A fantastic amount of money that will plant
may trees and hedgerows in Purbeck, providing homes and sustenance for
wildlife as well as pulling more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
We will keep you posted on how this project is coming along, as we
wouldn’t have been able to put our planting plans into action without
YOU!

We are delighted that your
painting 'Rise Up, Rise Up!' raised £855, representing our highest
selling item and many, many saplings to be purchased!

You have made a huge difference. Thank you.

Hi Stephen,

Our painting arrived and is happily
in its first location, shortly to be moved to my son’s room.  It’s
fabulous - so many more colours than were evident from the online image, and that haunting ship….I’m sure it will be inspirational to Oscar
during his English creative writing papers…

So thank you so much for this, and
of course for our joyful wild flower meadow painting around which we’re designing the whole colour scheme of our new living space. 

Dear Stephen,

Thank you for the most wonderful painting. We have found time to walk around the house trying to find the best spot for your painting. We are trying various walls and, when settled, I will send you photos. 

It’s a new experience to buy art online, it’s such a personal thing. But
your photo was very accurate and we love the painting! It makes me feel as if I’m lying in the grass, lovely.  Thank you for organising delivery of Cornflowers towards St Adhelm’s Head.

What a lovely Christmas present for us! I’m on your email list, so have
followed your work for several years. I will send you a photo of your painting in its new home.

I will also send you a photo of the first painting we bought Towards the
Light. It’s very beautiful, visceral, gorgeous light on the water.

It is in our holiday home in Florida and has given us years of joy!

Thanks very much.

With very best wishes,

Helen and Andrew

Below is a message from the late Toni and his wife Sheila. They were both fantastic artists and generous supporters of many artists like msyelf. They kindly collected several of my works over the years both from Dorset and London. I always enjoyed meeting them and miss them a great deal.

Dear Stephen,

Thank you for sending the Dorset magazine.  We love the painting we bought "Echoes through time". The reproductions of your pictures in the magazine are utterly different from the originals in that they stress the likeness to nature far more that when you see the real thing.  I presume that is because when something is reproduced we naturally try and connect it with what we know.  I am glad it was published and congratulations. Keep us in touch with where you are showing.

They really are lovely Stephen. 

Stephen has incredible talent. His work is truly special. One could
almost fall in to the tranquility of my pieces. I love Stephen’s
artistic ability to calm the soul, evoke emotion and stir memories. I
absolutely adore my artwork by Stephen Bishop, as do its many admirers!

Our guests were mesmerised by your painting ‘Path to the Sea’, it
received a lot of attention during dinner, everyone thought it had been painted by an artist who was clearly at the very top of their game.

With summer now long past, "what remains" is now firmly part of the
establishment in london.... A great reminder of Corfe, and a wonderful
work. Hopefully the setting does it justice.

I'm thrilled with the painting! Thank you for all your care and skill in
creating it and the thoughtful touches you've included. It's such a
vibrant, positive and happy painting. The view over Swanage Bay is very
special to me and I know that I'll treasure this painting for the rest
of my life.

We first saw Stephen's work at an Open Studio event in Purbeck. Since
then, we have kept in touch and have been to a number of exhibitions and Open Studios. It is always a pleasure to view Stephen's work; his use of colour and technique make his paintings uplifting, inspiring and exciting. His invocation of place (at first, Spain and now our beloved Purbeck) gives his work special meaning for us. The paintings we have bought are part of our landscape. If only we had more wall space!
Thank you, Stephen. We look forward to seeing more.

I love Stephen Bishop’s work - his creations speak to my soul & lift my spirit with a smile, like a best friend would.

This piece is “Beneath the Waves’ and is so very me. As a relatively new open water swimmer in Dorset, I knew when I saw it that it was me being taken to a blessed, happy place …along the waves… to so such peace in a noisy world.

Art is so very important in our lives, always…and even more so in these unstable, unknown times.

I can never express enough gratitude for this magnificent painting and I will always treasure it.

Thank you Stephen - very much.

My husband and I have been collecting Stephen’s work for years and would collect more if space allowed. We love how Stephen evokes time, place and feeling in each work, and of the location or situation that inspired him. Whatever the image, the sincerity behind the work shines through - and grants you a fresh vision each time you look - which we never tire of doing!