ROVING ARTIST - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Artist and Historian
FASCINATED BY THE HISTORY, Steve Abbott is one of a small band of silhouettists keeping the decorative and beautiful art of the silhouette portrait alive today.
"Hi, I'm Steve Abbott and I live in Marple, near Stockport, in Cheshire. I am a retired Aircraft Design and Publications Engineer.
Steve Abbott was involved in the Silhouette Secrets projects. He was interviewed on Llandudno Pier about the an artist called Harry Oakley, who used to work there. During the interview he cut a silhouette of Charles. The process would have taken little over a minute, if Charles hadn't insisted Steve include all his curls! The sequence would have ended up on the cutting-room floor, but we revived it to make this little two-minute Silhouette Snippet video.