Ian Stephenson

Ian Stephenson RA (11 January 1934 – 25 August 2000) was an English abstract artist.

[2] He returned to King's College, Durham to teach with Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton.

[2] Since his death, his work has been exhibited at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead.

[2] Stephenson's work was characteristically made by splattering droplets of paint onto paper or canvas and repeating this with many different colours.

[6][7] In his obituary, published in The Independent the painter Andrew Forge described his work as:[8] "Pictures of nothing which are about everything.