Steven Baines is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, works on paper, and sculptural objects. His practice explores emotional landscapes, perception, and the inner psychological dimensions of experience, often through abstract or symbolic imagery. Across series such as Our Escape Hatches, Sky Phase, and We Are All Islands, he combines poetic titles with experimental visual language, emphasizing mood, introspection, and conceptual storytelling rather than realism.
Alongside his studio practice, Baines has an extensive career in the film and television industry as a scenic artist, working within art departments to create painted environments, textures, and visual illusions for screen productions. His credits include work on major film and television series such as The Equalizer, American Horror Story, Search Party, Ziwe, On the Rocks, and The Black Klansman, where he contributed to the visual atmosphere of sets as part of collaborative production teams.
This dual career, moving between independent fine-art practice and large-scale collaborative screen production reflects a consistent interest in constructed environments, illusion, and the emotional impact of visual space.
