About

Steve Bridger is a painter living in the Slough District of south Richmond, BC. His work over many decades is based in the visuality of places in the Metro Vancouver area and the Okanagan, so the unceded ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlem, and Kwantlen First Nations on the coast, and of three Interior Salish nations: the Syilx, Secwépemc, and Nlaka'pamux peoples.

The paintings are about the appearance and textures of surfaces, whether in landscape or in painting materials and supports themselves. So the work ranges from somewhat representational resemblances through abstraction, and the abstract qualities of common visual materials. The latter includes texts, words, letters, so some of the work is “text” work. All of the work aims to open insights as visual material strongly impacts our bodies and our psyches.