This painting is from my 'Dots & Little Things' & 'Infinite Possibilities' series around 1997-2006 which dealt with various forms of communication and where I really put print media under the microscope. Essentially it was the beginning of my fascination with all things microscopic and minuscule worlds.

The dots in the painting have a direct relationship with the Benday Dot Screens used in mass media print images. I took tiny areas from newspaper & magazine images and abstracted and manipulated them under visual devises such as magnifying glasses and microscopes. I then reproduced and manipulated the dots, painting each one by hand with textural paint. The effect created is these intense clusters of rhythmic vibrating spots and dots that pulsate across the canvas. Although the process of making was very important, this series is also a lot about seeing and looking.

These bigger paintings really start to visually vibrate and resonate with universal themes of the sublime of things big and small. Over and above in looks at the infinitely sublime possibilities contained within minute things.
'Infinite Possibilities. Zero becomes the dot, becomes the circle and the sphere in which there is much harmony. Discovered beneath the microscope, Jacquelyn Stephens explores the minutiae of the processed image, reduced to its component dots of colour'. Courtesy David Thomas.

What I enjoy most about my paintings is they make people smile with a sense of wonderment and feelings of happiness as well as giving their walls style and finesse with a splash of colour for years to come.