In the peculiar and multicoloured landscape of contemporary art, Steel's oeuvre tries to capture it's own space. Averse from trendy and hollow boasting, but with a headstrong stubborness and attention for the metier, he tries to turn a personal mythologie in to sensual and compelling images wich stay burned on the retina long after. He knows and honours his old masters. His paint application is very intuitive and his finishing touch fanatic, everything to create the perfect illusion.
His oeuvre is a neverending search for true authenticity, never totally adequate, neither sufficient. His themes are contemporary and universal, sometimes alluring, sometimes humoristic, but always with an underlying existentialist questioning to the essence of seduction, and the sense and nonsense of our society. The versatility of his ever changing thematic and stillistic aproach betray a rich imagination, connected with a precise and merciless perception.
The qualities of the Works are to be gradually discoverd, after the observer gets seduced by the sensuality wich radiates from the canvases. Wich is told converges with the skills of the depicted, seduced we reflect on seduction.