For Steve, life and art are inseparable:
Art, cooking, gardening, writing, guitar, family, friendship, kindness (even when grumpy), joy, travel, and love of fellow humans all feed into his creative vision. His works are living testaments to a philosophy of travelling free, living in the moment, and sharing a vision.

Stephen Robert Ingram (SRI), known to most simply as Steve, is an expressionist painter and graphic artist based in the Blue Mountains, Australia. Born in England and travelling overland to Australia in the 1980s, his art is infused with a love of colour, texture, and the immediacy of painting in the moment.
Working both en plein air, with fellow artists and in the studio, Steve creates vibrant, moody, and dynamic canvases that draw on nature, memories, art school, global travels, sketchbooks kept since boyhood, and a lifelong immersion in music, food, and culture. His parents, one an oil painter and the other an architect and watercolour artist, instilled in him an appreciation of creativity as a way of life.
Inspired by artists from Rembrandt to Pollock, Matisse to Hockney, and countless contemporaries, Steve’s work is both homage and original expression. His paintings invite viewers into a world where freedom, resilience, and joy are celebrated through bold, living colour.

I paint to capture the immediacy of life- its colours, moods, and fleeting moments. Working en plein air, with fellow artists and in my Blue Mountains studio, I explore the energy of mark-making and the transformation of canvas into something alive. My work draws on nature, memories, art school, travel, music, food, and culture, shaped by the artistic family of my oil painter Mum and architect Dad. Influenced by artists from Rembrandt to Pollock and beyond, I create expressionist works that celebrate freedom, resilience, and the joy of living in the moment.

I create vibrant, expressionist paintings inspired by travel, music, nature, and memory- works that celebrate freedom, colour, and the joy of living in the moment.