Steve Rogers is an INTUITIVE ABSTRACT ARTIST that is inspired by the plein air locations that he teaches at throughout the United States and Mediterranean Europe. When he returns to the studio my passion has increasingly become painting the emotion and spiritual feeling of place rather than elaborating on the representational imagery he has already created in the field. Rogers is only using this internal reference as a jumping off point and I then begin a conversation with the painting itself in which Rogers allows Its development to guide my action in an intuitive and responsive manner. Somewhere toward the end of this dance he engages in a more proactive way to pull the composition together.