Gloucester, MA

As a painter from life or plein air painter,  Stephen LaPierre follows the sun by day, mixing and applying his colors to create  astonishing dayscapes  of shadows and light. At night he finds available artificial light to birth his magical nightscapes, with each piece worked completely on site from DIRECT OBSERVATION ; never from a photograph.

Living his mantra,  Paint Paint Paint, LaPierre began his career  painting the mills, the streets  and the shadows of his hometown of Haverhill, Massachusetts, on the banks of the Merrimack River. A self-taught painter from the school of hard knocks, he was first encouraged to paint by Susan Paradis at Haverhill High School in the late 1970’s, when he quickly  found himself  inspired by the likes of Pablo Piccasso, Vincent Van Gogh, and Salvador Dali.