"The dreamlike content of the paintings of Steve Ackerman place them on the very fringe of surrealism. The scenes derive from preconceived ideas, and develop with aesthetic consideration for colour harmonies and compositional balance. The themes are based on surrealist concepts of time and logic interspersed with associations and interpretations of recursive obsessions and memories painted in a fantasy of imaginative invention"

Gallery  4

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the mountains of the Grand Canyon with skyscape and architecture. Figure with two David Hockney dogs descending stairs
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figures in a pub with no walls on a beach with a sphinx and statue of Joseph William Mallard Turner. Surreal oil painting
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surreal oil painting of a figure and a musician at a grand piano in front of an ancient disappearing temple
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Two windmills with a pair of knights charging past them on a bycycle in the evening light of the sun
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Painting of the Dural Membrane commisioned for use in anatomy and medical studies.

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female nude in full sunlight with 'Old Harry Rocks on the horizon
oversized statuesque figure staring out to sea on Sandbanks Beach with 'Old Harry Rocks' on the horizon. Electronic cyber painting

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