Having been involved in art since his early teens Stealer has had a unique ‘artistic education’ that many art degree students could only dream of. It was while attending a local youth centre that Stealer was fortunate to have been tutored by some of the UK’s finest artists including Phillippa Clayden of the Royal Academy and Denzil Forrest from the Royal College of Arts as well as Alan John and dozens of the leading lights in the British fine arts community who happened by the tiny youth centre in East London.
Stealer borrows from all styles and genres allowing him to constantly evolve as an artist. His current work is very graphic in style and tips its hat in respect towards the street art movement, and although his style is reminiscent of stencilled work it is all painted by brush. Stealers use of metaphors and visual clues in his work invites the viewer to try and unravel the true meaning of each piece as did the great renaissance masters.
Stealer enjoys the ambiguity in his work and the thoughts of others that flow from it.
“People ask me to explain my work but my work has personal meaning to me, it may mean or say something completely different to you and I’m not going to argue with that. Art is a language all of its own and I don’t know of any other language that can explain it. As Jackson Pollock said, every painter paints what he is”