Media Category: Charles-Marchant-Stevenson

The Poet and the Artist (detail).

Danse du Ventre (1996). Acrylic on canvas (36” x 24”). Signed: Stevenson/Leach. Stevenson/Leach Studios. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199636*

You, Me, You (1996), Charles Marchant Stevenson’s unsparing self-portrait. Acrylic on canvas (60” x 36”). Stevenson/Leach Studios. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199610

Wrestlers (1996). Acrylic on canvas (48” x 36” ). Signed on reverse: Stevenson/Leach. Stevenson/Leach Studios. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199609*

Mendocino Angels at Sunset (1994). A reminder to look for the angels in Mendocino skies. Models: Shanti Balsé and Matt Leach. Acrylic on canvas (30” x 48”). Signed: Stevenson ’94. Stevenson/Leach Studios. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199427*

How I See It: Mendocino Bay (1995). From the Mendocino headlands, Charles Marchant Stevenson looks south across the bay toward Chapman’s Point. Within rainbow energies, mischievous elementals coalesce and dissolve. Stevenson shares the magic, giving the viewer a glimpse through his trifocal spectacles, the triple lenses through which he observes and records his world. Acrylic on canvas (48 x 60”). Signed: Charles Stevenson ’95. Stevenson-Leach-Studios. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199509*

Hermes Trismegistus (1996) – “Thrice-Great Hermes” – and Hermetic tradition, have their origin in the fusion of Greek and Egyptian cultures under the Ptolomies, and in Jewish Kabbalistic tradition. The Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian ibis-headed god Thoth merge. Both are gods of wisdom, writing, science, healing, astrology, and magic; both are psychopomps, guiding souls to the afterlife. Today Hermetic philosophy teaches the unity of the Cosmos and the Self, the mystical interconnection of all things, an identity of the Divine both without and within. The Symbols: The triple face represents Hermes Trismegistus, vanquisher of the Dragon of Ignorance. The nine crowns are the angelic Crowns of Life. The seven-branched menorah, represents Israel, called to be “a light unto the nations” (Isaiah 42:6). G-d tells Zechariah that the menorah is a reminder: “not by might nor by power, but by My spirit” (Zechariah 4:1-6). The seven flames are the seven eyes of G-d (Zachariah 4:10), a metaphor revealing a secret: G-d overlooks and judges creation from seven perspectives corresponding to the seven attributes of the heart. The pair of sacred ibis flanking the menorah allude to Thoth. Acrylic on canvas (36” x 24”). Signed: Stevenson. Stevenson/Leach Studios. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199603*

Tai Chi Energies (1994). Acrylic on canvas (48” x 21”). Stevenson/Leach Studios. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199425*

Auguste Rodin’s Gates of Hell (cast bronze), Rodin Museum, Hotel Biron, Paris

Mirror Trick: Narcissus (1993). The subject shares a focus with the viewer, while King Neptune and a mermaid await discovery. Acrylic (48: x 36”). Hand signed: Stevenson. Stevenson/Leach Studios. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199400