NSB Regional Library - Steve Rogers

Florida House with Red Chair, 1999
Watercolor on paper

Steve Rogers
Ormond Beach, Fla.
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Steve Rogers was born in 1947 in New York City. He attended Rollins College in Winter Park and received a bachelor’s degree from Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, in 1969. His father, Henry Rogers, was a commercial artist who often would paint at home when Steve was a child. He studied in New York with artist Harold Stevenson, who would go on to found the prestigious Stevenson Academy of Fine Art, and later with legendary watercolor painter and instructor Robert E. Wood. Rogers has made a career of painting since 1975. He lives in Ormond Beach with his wife, Janet; both are signature members of the American Watercolor Society. 

Rogers' work is represented in many public and corporate collections including the Florida Senate Collection, National Watercolor Society Permanent Collection, the Orlando Civic Center, Orlando International Airport, Museum of Arts & Sciences in Daytona Beach, and the U.S. Fifth District Courthouse. He also has 18 paintings at Walt Disney World in Orlando and 16 paintings at Euro-Disney in Paris.

“My purpose as an artist is to portray the beauty of light and color in God's world as I experience it within my heart. These images are a series of watercolors I have painted since my first trip to the Mediterranean in 1992. On this and subsequent trips I have been able to paint this beautiful land not as one who sees it every day, but as a “visitor” who is awestruck by something fresh and new and at the same time very ancient” – Steve Rogers