"First of all, thank you for taking the time to visit my website and affording me the opportunity to show you examples of my art. My main objective from the inception of stanmcbride.com in 2004, was to design a website that captures the ambiance of a well-lighted gallery minus the "cookie cutter" boring template style pages with distracting advertisement banners and pop ups. "

In 1953 when Stan was in the second grade at David D. Martin primary school in San Lorenzo, California, he enterd a poster design compitetion open to all students grades one through six. To everyone's amazement, he won the $5.00 first prize cash award which included a follow-up storey in the Hayward, California newspaper "The Daily Review".  This early experience instilled in stan a desire to one day become a painter.

"As a child I was fascinated with color. Some of my earliest memories are of my mother's flower garden which attracted many beautiful butterflies and insects with their wonderful patterns and hue. I also had similar interests in the graphic nature of postage stamps and flags of the world. And still do!"

Stan was awarded first prize in painting in his sophomore, junior, and senior years at Sunset High School in Hayward, California. His teacher Frank Wight was the main reason for his early success in high school.  Just before graduating, Stan received a scholarship to the Academy of Art in San Francisco for the summer semester of 1964 and in the fall enrolled and majored in painting and minored in printmaking at Brigham Young University.

"While at Brigham Young University, my design professor, the revered Alex Darais, was instrumental in my development in the discipline of fine art. Gaining an understanding of the basic philosophy of the color-field, hard-edge genre of painters such as Joseph Albers, Frank Stella for example, influenced my style of minimal motifs, clean lines and bold color."

In his junior year at B.Y.U. Stan entered a watercolor titled: Millenial Spectrum at the Springville Art Museum's 53rd Annual National Art Exhibit and won Honorable Mention In Painting.  As a senior at B.Y.U. he was awarded the Faculty Merit Award For Watercolor.  The following year, he entered a hard-edge painting titled: Pyramid #2 in the 1972 Utah Painting and Sculpture Show at the Utah State Capitol Rotunda.  Pyramid #2 was accepted by the jury and also honored with the show's Merit Award For painting.  More shows and awards followed through the years.

"Photography has played a key role in my maturation as a fine artist with examples of some of my best still images here on stanmcbride.com. Not withstanding, the collaboration to which this skill affords my legacy documention."