Steve Streadbeck

Steve Streadbeck has spent decades at the intersection of science, scripture, and philosophy — searching for the unified principles that govern both the physical universe and the human spirit.

His writing draws on a lifetime of study across cosmology, quantum physics, ancient wisdom traditions, and the nature of consciousness. He believes these fields are not separate disciplines but different windows onto the same eternal reality.

Steve’s Bio Steve Streadbeck grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. Steve’s father was a college professor; this allowed Steve and his family many opportunities to travel extensively during summer vacation. They traveled widely throughout the United States while Steve was young and in his later years to Europe on numerous occasions. Steve’s father had a deep love for art and museums. Through the years this love and appreciation of art was passed to Steve. As Steve’s love for art grew he became determined to develop his skill. He participated in schooling and hands-on courses which helped him fine tune his passion. When the decision was made to become a full-time artist he took an apprenticeship from an established sculptor. In addition to sculpting this accomplished artist owned a foundry with which he produced his work. This allowed Steve the opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of the sculpting and foundry process from start to finish. As a young artist Steve loved to sculpt the human form, he felt that it was the epitome of Gods creations. Steve began studying and sculpting the human anatomy. He became determined to learn the human form so well that he could sculpt the human face and body from his memory. Steve loved growing up in the west. He was fascinated by history and culture. Especially interesting to him was the Indian cultures of the Western United States. Not only was their ceremonial costumes interesting but it gave Steve a perfect medium with which he could display his love for western culture with his ability to sculpt the human body. Steve located his family in Lehi Utah, and established a sculpting studio in conjunction with a small ranch. To begin selling his work Steve partnered with his brother Brian and they created in 1982 Main Street Art, Inc. an organization that marketed Steve’s sculptures. Steve and Brian traveled extensively to shows throughout the United States promoting his work. In the mid 1980’s one of the main foundries Steve was working with began to have financial difficulties. Partially out of necessity and partially because of his knowledge and love of foundry work Steve and his brothers bought the foundry. The existing foundry closed its doors and Steve along with his brothers Brian and Gary open the next Monday as Adonis Bronze. Since that day in 1986 Adonis Bronze has grown to be one of the most respected foundries in the United States. In conjunction with the foundry Steve wanted to incorporate an Art Gallery on the facility and a Sculpture Park to show sculptures of all styles from as many artists as possible. With this goal he and his brothers created the Alpine Art Center and Sculpture Park Art Foundation in Alpine Utah. The Art Center and Sculpture Park has become a wonderful forum for showing a large number of works of art. The Sculpture Park has been opened to all artist with artistic control vested in an oversight committee. Since Steve’s early days his journey and career has taken him in many unique and wonderful directions. Steve’s commissions have included everything from busts of children to action figures of people of any age. He has done fountains, heroic and monumental size sculptures, historically famous people, and even solders in action for the United States government. Steve Streadbeck has truly become a master sculptor. His love of the art shows in his work and he is now in collections world wide not only of the serious art collector or celebrities, but as part of the collections of many simple collectors, who were captivated by his design and execution. Steve enjoys a special relationship with his clients and he rejoices in the opportunity for direct communication and encourages contact at anytime. He truly views his clients as friends who enjoy his passion for the arts. During the last 15 years at the Alpine Art Center, Steve and his wife Carol rented out the Center and Gallery for Weddings and Events. They quickly learned how to cater food and entertain groups of hundreds. At about age 70 they felt it time to retire from all the late hours and exhaustive work. They made their way to Preston, Idaho to be near their three sons, Jason, Clint and Brandon. Stacie their only daughter remained in Utah to raise her family in Lakeshore. Not long after arriving in Idaho, Clint found a great job back in Kaysville and Brandon moved his family to Alaska to be a Wildlife Biologist. Jason and his family remain in Preston, and he and his two sons spend their days working in the concrete business while his wife teaches 3rd grade at the local elementary school. Steve lives with his wife of 54 years, Carol Ann Purcell of Brigham City, Utah. They have a beautiful home called Freedom Ranch on the bank of the Bear River in Riverdale, Idaho.

What led Steve to write these books. Steve’s father passed away at age 101 in 2017, and for the last 10 years of his life he and his two brothers Larry and Gary took care of him. Steve remembers on one of their trips for Arval while visiting the VA Hospital, he and his dad got into a deep conversation as to the connection between the gospel teachings of the various degrees of glory following resurrection and the possible connection between that and the physics of String Theory. Following that day Steve has spent countless hours writing about the connection between Science and Religion. Steve believes that all truth is circumscribed into one great whole, and therefore one must study that connection in order to know the truth and to be set free. Man learns about God and the spirit through religion, in order to know the why, and the quantum mechanics of atoms to know the how. Science describes the structure of the atom. Religion describes the purpose of the atom. Science reveals the forces that bind matter. Religion reveals the intelligence that governs matter. Science explains how matter behaves. Religion explains why matter exists. Consider light — the most fundamental expression of energy. Science tells us that light behaves as both a wave and a particle. That it travels at a constant speed. That it carries information. That it structures matter. That it is the medium through which energy is exchanged across the universe. But what does religion tell us? Scripture teaches that light is the glory of God. That it fills the immensity of space. That it is the law by which all things are governed. That it is the power of God. That it is the life of all things. That it is the medium through which intelligence receives truth. Science describes the behavior of light. Religion describes the identity of light. Science reveals that light carries information. Religion reveals that light is truth. Science explains that light structures matter. Religion reveals that light is spirit. Steve likes to quote Brigham Young when he said, “If the inhabitants of the earth thoroughly understood their own being, their views, feelings, faith, and affections would be very different from what they now are.” It would please Steve if you would take this journey into the unification of Science and Religion with him.