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# Craig Stover

Artist & Host of ArtShow

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- [Craig Stover - Fine Artist and Host of ArtShow](https://picturemaker.com/) - Craig Stover - Philadelphia based Artist. Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Prints and Commissions, Art Lecturer and Host of ArtShow (Artist Interview Program)
- [Available Artworks](https://picturemaker.com/available-artworks/) - Original Artworks Thank you for logging in. Just bookmark this page to revisit. Below are available artworks from various series: Imaginary Botanicals, Sentinels, Bathers and Unique Pieces. You can purchase directly from this page (via PayPal) or you can request an invoice. Please contact us with questions, commission ideas or studio visits requests. SHIPPING: Prices
- [ArtShow Interview Form](https://picturemaker.com/artist-interviews/) - Independent Artists who wish to appear on ArtShow for an artist interview may submit their information on this page. Galleries/Representatives can also apply.
- [About](https://picturemaker.com/about/) - BFA '93 - University of the Arts Studio Assistant for Sam Maitin and Elizabeth Osbourne Worked with Creative Artists Network (now the CEVA), The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Woodmere Art Museum, The Snyderman Galleries, The Avenue of the Arts and The Arts & Business Council Taught printmaking and painting at Haverford College Served as Executive Director
- [ArtShow Artist Resources](https://picturemaker.com/artshowartistresources/) - ArtShow artist resources is a list of ways participating artists can help spread the word about their interviews.
- [Shop Originals](https://picturemaker.com/shop-originals/) - Welcome to our online shop of original artworks. Over 30 available works can be purchased directly from the studio through this online shop. If you see something one this site or on social media but it's not in the online shop, just contactus. Paintings, prints, drawings and commissions are available. To see more available works
- [ArtShow](https://picturemaker.com/artshow/) - ArtShow is an artist interview program with host Craig Stover that is fun, interesting and engaging. A great resource of artists working today.
- [Shop Prints](https://picturemaker.com/shop-prints/) - Signed, Limited Editioned Prints Purchase Details: 20 different prints available $150 (USD) each - PayPal All prints are signed and numbered (unframed) Free shipping within the US Allow 2-4 weeks Also Available: Original Artwork Shop Sample image of a framed print. Black Stocking NEW EDITION Black Stocking, 2024 14.5"x11" image size w/ 1" border, signed
- [Shop](https://picturemaker.com/shop/) - Original Artworks - Prints (Limited Editions) - Prints (Open Editions) - Prints (Leasing) - Books - Merchandise Original Artworks Our online shop has a wide selection of available artworks - paintings, drawings and monotype prints. View all available original artwork here Want more? Contact to schedule an appointment for a studio/gallery visit (in Fairmount, just 4
- [Sculptures](https://picturemaker.com/sculptures/) - I learned bookbinding and pop-up book techniques in the early 90s which led me to cutting and folding the papers into more free-form sculptures. Years later, the discovery of aluminum flashing and it's abilities was a turning point to more sustainable structures like these shown here.
- [Paintings](https://picturemaker.com/paintings/) - I've always loved painting. With the resurgence of realism and rise of photography starting in the 80's, I decided to swim upstream and pursue a path that allowed me to explore more of my imagination and conceptual ideas. With new Ai technologies, this reaction has only increased my craving for the hand-made mark.
- [Paintings: Big Picture](https://picturemaker.com/paintings-big/) - Big Picture just refers to my bigger paintings. Although I like to work in series, I also make unique works that tend to get a bit larger. I feel that bigger pictures, which often require more time to complete, encourages a larger story to be told within the picture. Several of these artworks are available
- [Drawings: Dancers](https://picturemaker.com/prints-warriors-copy-copy/) - In 2025, I made a series of large drawings all titled Dancers. Although I was also making sculptures of the same theme, the drawings were not bound by physical limitations and thus were free to strike absurd poses. This image, Dancer (Black Stocking), 2025 is available as a print edition.
- [Drawings: Sentinels](https://picturemaker.com/drawings-sentinels/) - The Sentinels series was started at the beginning of the pandemic (2019). A friend had gifted me a giant box of large, thick paper which I used to create this series of pastel drawings. I set out to make large abstracted figures, all holding spears in their hands and standing at attention on a common
- [Prints: Skull](https://picturemaker.com/prints-warriors-copy/) - These skulls are all linocuts (similar to a woodcut) made with two separate plates, printed on paper and often using watercolors. Each one is unique. The image comes from the fact that they were made a year into the pandemic of 2019 as the world watched the death toll climb. This image, Skull I, 2025,
- [Prints](https://picturemaker.com/prints/) - I've always loved printmaking. It started with my interest in Warhol but over the years expanded to include artists like Goya, Hayter and Hockney. I've explored linocuts for the past few years with great enthusiasm. I find it a wonderful medium. It's ability to capture the swiftness of mark in the image is quite extraordinary.
- [Drawings](https://picturemaker.com/drawings/) - Drawing is the foundation of my art. For me, even paintings is just drawing with paint. It's seemingly limitless capacity for imagination and invention connects us as a species and can communicate ideas of beauty and intelligence.
- [Paintings : Sentinels](https://picturemaker.com/paintings-sentinels/) - The Sentinels is a series of pictures that started at the beginning of the pandemic. At that time, I felt like everyone was looking for a little bit of security, a little bit of extra protection. So I made these soldiers (each holding their own large spear and standing at attention) to act as guardians
- [Drawings: Imaginary Botanicals](https://picturemaker.com/drawings-imaginary-botanicals/) - While I was working at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia in the early 2000s, I had the opportunity to make some studies of unique specimens from their massive collection. More specifically, I was fascinated with those where just one example is all that exists (type specimen). That idea became the basis for me
- [Prints: Warriors](https://picturemaker.com/prints-warriors/) - The Warrior prints started right after the 2016 elections when it seemed like everyone was in a fighting mood. At the time I had been fascinated with ancient Greek urns and started imagining pop art versions of these ancient classics. Later on, these urn figures morphed and merged into these new fighters to create this
- [Prints: Bathers](https://picturemaker.com/prints-bathers/) - These Bathers prints are all monotype linocuts using reductive techniques. The process allowed me to experiment with color on a single image on a grander scale than painting or drawing. The prints are not editioned but instead often have multiple color variations using the same plate. The book Bathers was published in 2016 which has a
- [Drawings: Bathers](https://picturemaker.com/drawings-bathers/) - The drawings of Bathers on this page were all made on a beach in Surry, Maine in the summer of 2014. We stayed at a private home along a miles long stretch of rocky coast line. I would take the papers down to the beach and rub them against sand to bring up the tooth
- [Paintings: Imaginary Botanicals](https://picturemaker.com/paintings-imaginary-botanicals/) - These Imaginary Botanical paintings started the day after 9/11. I wanted to do the opposite of what everyone witnessed; I wanted pictures that celebrated the joy of life. These botanicals grew along with a new fascination for Francois Boucher's Louise O'Murphy. I saw within this painting similar geometry and eventually merged the two with the
- [Painting : Bathers](https://picturemaker.com/painting-bathers/) - The Bathers is a series of pictures that spans a ten year time frame. The start for these came from The Bathers by Paul Cezanne in the collection of the Barnes Foundation. The first few were more faithful to the original in that they had up to seven figures but over time, this number was
- [Timeline](https://picturemaker.com/timeline/) - Nov 3, 2021 1993/96 Sets up first studio on s. 19th street in Philadelphia just off of Rittenhouse Square in 1993. Begins painting the Three Graces series of works usingTibetan patterns overlaid with Raphael's version of the Three Graces. The series made of individual paintings and small screen-print editions on paper and canvas. Nov 3,
- [ArtShow Specials - Sponsored Interviews](https://picturemaker.com/artshow-specials-sponsored-interviews/) - ArtShow Specials - Sponsored Artist Interviews for galleries and representatives. Get more people interested in the artists that you represent.
- [Artist Interview](https://picturemaker.com/artist-interview/) - An artist interview with Craig Stover
- [Contact](https://picturemaker.com/contact/) - cstover@picturemaker.com facebook.com/Picturemaker instagram.com/stover_studio youtube.com/@ArtShowwithCraigStover Questions, Commissions and Studio Visits Welcome Mailing List We do not share contact information. Please fill out the information below Email Address* Last Name Last First Name First
- [Drawings: Figures](https://picturemaker.com/drawings-figures/) - To be able to invent something new, to watch it unfold in front of you while not knowing what the final image will be is a gift. I don't know what I'm going to end up with when I start these pictures because I use the freedom to change course while creating them. I have
- [Donations for Charity](https://picturemaker.com/charity-nonprofit-donations/) - Donations of artwork for Charities and Non-Profits Do you work for a charity or non-profit with a worthy cause? Craig Stover will donate a work of art to your organization so that you may sell it at your next auction, fund-raiser or online shop to help raise money to support your organization. Donated artworks are
- [Thanks](https://picturemaker.com/thanks/) - Thank you for signing up with Craig Stover's Studio Mailing List.
- [Thank you!](https://picturemaker.com/thank-you/) - Thank you for your purchase from Craig Stover Studios. Your item is being prepared and will be shipping to you shortly.
- [Drawings: Maps](https://picturemaker.com/drawings-maps/) - I found an old map of Lemon Hill (Fairmount Park, PA) from 1870 that appears to be very inaccurate but beautifully inventive. Since I was already making invented maps of this same area, I used that old map as a starting point for some new pictures. I tried to use that same inventiveness in these
- [Prints: Maps](https://picturemaker.com/prints-landscapes/) - These maps are linocuts made using a reductive method (sometimes using multiple plates). All of the prints are monotypes (unique) without editioning. The image is an abstracted memory of a walk through a park with the twisted roads becoming a series of lines and the houses and structures becoming shapes. Secret Code Word: Scavenger
- [Paintings : Maps](https://picturemaker.com/paintings-landscapes/) - The Maps are referencing a local park I frequent called Lemon Hill. More specifically, they are abstracted memories of the park itself. I spent years walking though the park every day. The winding pathways become free flowing lines. The buildings become simple shapes that imply.
- [Prints: Figures](https://picturemaker.com/prints-figures/) - These figures are a collection of prints that all share a common foundation; the wandering line. A good number of these figures also tend to reference a common picture; that of Adam and Eve, 1996. The original painting was later reproduced as a linocut and then additional double figure prints and drawings arose from them.