Stavast Studio Gallery - Prints Page 1

Click on the numbered sections I, II, III, IV, V and Romeo & Juliet to view all of the prints
created from the original paintings by Stavast.

For sizes and pricing on prints please click on the print image


Time-Limited Offer Ends Feb 20, 2010: "Treasured Shallows"


	"Golden Cove"
Calm day without a ripple peace is so compelling reflecting life as we would wish it and so the setting spills the surface barring all but beauty speaking well within the depths of golden cove from a distant glance rocks create a path for minds to walk and jump across this quiet cove in playful childhood memory but on approach those rocks make boulder moves and scale is seen more clearly not in waters tale nor in these giant trees but on these bouldered banks as mule deer break their truancy with twitching ears and tail and subtle moves revealed but hold them still these subtle moves and ghostly blend will be to leave them still unseen a story missed with thoughtless glance but lost to reverie and beauty Stephen Stavast

"The Garden Pond"

“A Gift of Light”

The sun strays through trees above

as it’s caught on leaves

to focus there in dappled spots

but in the late of afternoon shade

these leavings shine so bright

refracting waves

have bent them now to ribbons

and with them deftly wrap this gift of light

and hide it here

beneath the lily pads

within a garden pond

Stephen Stavast

"On The Move"

A river’s play the stage is set
lights
curtain
action
still for moments stolen
as surface breaks these focused lights to tendrils
playing
dancing echoes from the sun
a visual cacophony held silent in the rivers run

moving
still
imagined sound so surely heard
but
an extra steals the scene without a word

before its darted splash from muscled moves
and streaks from same beneath the grooves
it poses whole yet through the surface broken
its bubble bursts on exit
and river stars again

an actor on the move

Stephen Stavast

On The Move

"Unplayable Lie"

"Running Shadows"

Imagined view toward earthly chards

rolled and softened by the river’s run

but now the waters slowed to trickling pools

awaiting storms of seasons come
to broaden banks beyond this stony ground

a tree above has cast this shadow seen

it’s leaves now boil in a moment’s breeze

and through these running shadows - animation -
from painter’s jest of trash I left

for the glint of light from cellophane

as it ticks and clicks across this scene

a subtle proof of artist’s head

and hands that shaped this stoic bed

Stephen Stavast

"A Bolder View"

No stone was left unturned
as boulders came to view
magic in its realism
brought forth at brushes end

Art is reaped from seeds of thought and knowledge
methodically planned and planted in
a viewer’s memory
a dry bed
arroyo
and other words describe the scene
but
design and depth are bolder views
for art is in the turning
upside down and sideways true

Now shape and size and colorwise define their
valued meaning
pieces bent to fit the whole
with every aspect pleasing

Abstract in thought from basic “X”
grounded
in a modern bold tradition
magically real
and through this labyrinth my art is found

Stephen Stavast