1. Steve Hanks Contemplating the Necessary Steps $895.00 The beauty of a painting by Steve Hanks is just as often matched by the thought and story behind it. Contemplating the Necessary Steps is one of a series of paintings that Hanks created as expressions of the healing process. Throughout the series, as the model makes her journey, she climbs higher and higher up the staircase. Both One Step at a Time and A New Beginning are other fine art editions that are part of this series.
2. Steve Hanks Aspen Winter $695.00 “This painting is not about a woman I’d like to be with, but rather it’s homage to a town that is so very close to my heart,” says artist Steve Hanks. At the risk of sounding like the Chamber of Commerce, Aspen is a very special place, averaging over 300 days of sunshine year and yes, the skiing is legendary. It’s also home to Steve Hanks’ original painting gallery and decades of wonderful memories for the artist and his three children. Hanks’ command of watercolor craft is on full display in this portrayal of confident anticipation of a great day on the slopes. If you’ve ever been here, or hope to go, this love letter to Aspen will ensure that you hold onto that dream.
3. Steve Hanks There Are Places to Go $895.00 "On the surface, the story behind this painting is straight forward," begins Steve Hanks. "This young woman has decided that it is time for her to leave home and make her own way in the world. The choice is hers and she is confident and self assured in her decision. But as it is with most of my paintings, there is a deeper, personal story to it.
"Years ago I painted a piece called Traveling with Dad. It showed me holding my daughter on an empty platform at a deserted railway stop. I painted that image at what was, without a doubt, the lowest point of my life. I was on my own raising two kids and the painting truly captured that feeling of the unknown future that we were heading toward. You"ll notice that this young woman carries the same suitcase I had on the platform."
"Today, I am a long way down that track and it turns out our stop was in New Mexico. I have always painted the mountains, the sea and rivers and lakes so it seemed to me for the longest time that Albuquerque was a place that I was going to either pass through or leave from. Well, the years passed and time has revealed that this was our destination. Albuquerque is our home. That little girl I once could easily hold in my arms is now grown up. The future is hers. She is going to be making her own decisions, which will determine the places she is headed toward."
There Are Places to Go is as fine an example of contemporary realism as you are going to find today in the art world. Steve Hanks is recognized as one of the country"s most important figurative artists. His technical skills combined with his captivating storytelling set his work apart from others. There Are Places to Go is available as both a drop-dead gorgeous Fine Art Canvas as well as an attractive regular-sized Fine Art Giclee Paper. Don"t let this train leave the station without you and don"t miss the chance to enrich your home with this work of fine art.
4. Steve Hanks Boundless $595.00 Recently artist Steve Hanks has been working on a series of paintings he refers to as “There are Angels Among Us” wherein he explores the idea of guardian angels in our lives. These may be angels of inspiration, angels of beauty, angels who provide direction or protection in our lives and the spirits of angels who lift us and sometimes even carry us. Mostly he is creating a tribute to the great role models and influences in his own life.
Boundless has a compelling composition. Her gesture like a metaphor for the cross, this joyous beauty leaps into a shaft of sunlight on an otherwise dim and foggy beach. Viewers are left to wonder, will she come down or is she on her way, eternally up? This very limited Fine Art Edition will bring inspiration to any room in your home and a gift of light to someone you love.
5. Steve Hanks Hold Onto the Gate $250.00 I love to revist the times when my kids were young and innocent and liked to play make-believe, says artist Steve Hanks. This little angel is probably too young to be outside the gate by herself so she's going to hold on tightly, with both hands.
Hold Onto the Gate is a darling portrait of a child's first glimpse of life outside the family. The elaborate wrought iron gate makes a dramatic backdrop to the fragility of the little ballerina standing before it. She won't be like this for long.
Steve is the first artist we are working with that is previewing his work on Twitter as he completes them. Go to
http://twitter.com/stevehanks and you’ll receive updates as he posts them!
6. Steve Hanks Raising Daughters $695.00 “As this family enjoys a walk along the beach in Del Mar, California,” says artist Steve Hanks,“a discussion with the younger daughter takes the full attention of her parents. This gives her older sister a chance to pursue her interests. “I’ve heard it said that when you raise a boy you only have one boy to worry about, but when you raise a daughter you have all of them to worry about. To illustrate this in Raising Daughters, the two girls and their mothers are the only females on the beach. I carried the story further by making the older daughter and the boy she is admiring into a couple in the far distant background, walking away.”
7. Steve Hanks Children on La Jolla Shores $550.00 As we grow older our perspective broadens and nowhere is this more obvious than with children. And, as is so often the case with a painting by Steve Hanks, the beauty and seeming simplicity of the work gives no hint of the complexity beneath. Each child interacts with the beach as they do the world. The youngest boy in the back is focused on his older sister. She in turn is picking up a shell, something in her immediate vicinity.
The third, grasping some seaweed makes the connection between it and the ocean from which it came. The oldest stares down the beach toward a group of surfers, the opening of the next phase of life beyond the immediate family.
8. Steve Hanks Waiting in the Rain $595.00 After a period of personal loss, Steve Hanks began a series of paintings visualizing his healing process. This inspiring series, which can be found in its entirety in the new book Moving On: The Art of Steve Hanks, follows the artist’s emotional journey from despair to hope. Waiting in the Rain is one of the last paintings in the healing series.
“At this point I had come out of my sadness. I began to think about the future. I thought about the kind of person I would want to come into my life,” says Hanks. “Waiting in the Rain is the visualization of that person, someone supportive and faithful. We would all like to have someone there waiting for us when return from a trip.”
Other Greenwich Workshop Fine Art Limited Editions from the healing series include A New Beginning and New Shoreline.
9. Steve Hanks To Dance Before the Sea and Sky $0.00 I believe that art can be more than just pretty pictures. Art should bring comfort to people. It should be by our side when we go through good times and hard times, says Steve Hanks. Art should elicit a thought provoking examination of one's own life and place in the world.
We all experience pain, but there are great moments of pleasure all around us too. These moments may often be fleeting and get by us before we are able to fully comprehend their beauty and importance. I have tried to capture a few of these moments in paintings that can be savored for years to come.
The beauty of this joyful moment is infectious. Steve Hanks has succeeded in capturing that perfect, uplifting energy in To Dance Before the Sea and Sky.
10. Steve Hanks Matters of the Heart Limited Edition $800.00 In this sensitive image, I tried to communicate that this young woman, like all of us, is having a quiet moment when she ponders the new directions that life will take her. We know that what she is feeling and what she is thinking will eternally remain a private matter, but it is an emotion we can relate to.
11. Steve Hanks Yesterday is a Long Time Ago $500.00 Yesterday is a Long Time Ago
12. Steve Hanks Touched By Beauty $445.00 Touched By Beauty
13. Steve Hanks Beyond the Path $425.00 Beyond the Path - From her lofty vantage point the young woman gazes over a rocky coastline and out to the distant hazy horizon. A path invites her forward. She begins the journey to the sunlit beach below with one tentative step. This beautiful image is Steve Hanks at his thoughtful best, suggesting a whole world of possibilities. What is she feeling on this warm summer day. What mysteries, what unknown opportunities lie just beyond the path. The artist poses these questions, then leaves the elusive answers to the viewer.
14. Steve Hanks Standing on Their Own Two Feet $495.00 Standing on Their Own Two Feet - “Many of my paintings are about the hopes and the dreams for my children,” said Steve Hanks in a 2006 interview. “They are about the things I want to expose them to, paintings, making their own art, music, reading books or simply thinking for themselves. All these things contribute to them standing on their own two feet and reaching for their dreams. When I paint children it creates unique opportunities for symbolism about the big ideas.” "Standing on Their Own Two Feet" is an example of Steve Hanks’ engagement with titles and the opportunity that they provide to add meaning to the work. The mother holds her toddler as she stands, perhaps for the first time, before the sweep of the ocean. It is a portrait of loving guidance and support. But also, in their reflections in the water, and in the shadows behind them, they are both literally standing on their own two feet.
15. Steve Hanks Saddling Up $275.00 Saddling Up - Watercolor master artist Steve Hanks’ painted primarily figures: beautiful women, adorable children and families. But he was a creature born and bred in the West, and the horse and ranch life were occasional subjects in his work. Saddling Up was originally published as a fine art paper edition in 2014 and it quickly sold out at publisher.
16. Steve Hanks Companions of the Big Easy $395.00 Companions of the Big Easy
17. Steve Hanks Hold On to Your Dreams $495.00 Hold On to Your Dreams - "Hold On to Your Dreams" embodies the universal hope of a couple’s long and happy life together. Along the bright shoreline of their life, a child appears, as do other couples enjoying the evolution of partners over a lifetime. Steve’s dream for this painting was to visualize the full cycle of a fulfilling life together has come true.
18. Steve Hanks SHEER GRACE $395.00 SHEER GRACE - Steve Hanks believed that the pinnacle of art was the painting of the unclothed figure, what is commonly referred to by the art world as the nude. There is nothing more challenging for an artist to paint and finding a respectable way to present the human body was an unending challenge for him. You’ll notice that nearly every nude Hanks painted is not looking at or beckoning the viewer. You find them having private, intimate moments in places where they are safe, secure and comfortable: the bedroom, the bed, the couch or the bath. These are moments of being completely alone, deep in private thought coming to terms with themselves. For Steve, the most powerful moments were those when his subject could look so wonderful and not even be aware of it. As a bell-weather he would use the time he was walking through his bedroom and caught a glimpse of his wife changing and he thought to himself,” . . . my gosh - she is so beautiful right now and she doesn’t even realize it.”
