https://www.heatherstewart.work/work daily 1.0 2023-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50f07321205f00019fe6c8/1566115180588-U0WEYOODCY23X3MKEFCT/DSCN0013.JPG Painting Themes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50f07321205f00019fe6c8/1567930377881-4GQAO0FBE7MBN0NTLZN2/20190908_041530820_iOS.jpg Painting Themes - Rosa x Oderata 2005 Oil on Canvas 153cmx 122cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50f07321205f00019fe6c8/1566356246975-LSCQ1B3RVK95EXKQ5FWI/Heather+Stewart_Of+what+are+we+a+Part.+80x110.jpg Painting Themes - Of what are we a part 2014 Graphite on Lana Paper 93cmx110 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50f07321205f00019fe6c8/1566271785125-XV6FEF4V4OLWKYN9OKW4/Temple+%28547x580%29.jpg Painting Themes - Temple 2013 Oil on Linen 173cmx173cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50f07321205f00019fe6c8/1600052582570-V6DI97EANNYOEW3VOZUL/20200821_044449572_iOS.jpg Painting Themes - Skeleton No 4. Graphite on Saunders paper. 76cmx56cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50f07321205f00019fe6c8/1568350653343-ZM4WRP1RKB3MT16MH55M/Studt+7.jpg Painting Themes - Tunnel Creek 2019 Soluble oil pastel on Arches 37cmx27cm These small studies are works in progress. They were made en plein air during an amazing adventure camping down the Gibb river road in the Kimberley W.A. in 2019. The nature of this direct method leaves little room for verisimilitude and as such is a blessed relief for me. The heat and the flies and the practicalities of working with melting oilsticks makes for quick decisions and only leaves the simplicity of colour, line and form: the coloured mark, to carry the weight of the idea. As a painter the immense beauty and breadth of the Kimberley is elusive. To be in the landscape is to be consciously surrounded, the atmosphere tangible and engaging every sense. As you move through the landscape the large broad shapes are forever altering, with their strong coloured shadows, the sky a constantly changing shape as the rocky outcrops advance and recede. Scrambling in and out of gorges there is a tendency to be constantly changing viewpoints, looking up and down the escarpments, as new shapes click into view, onward and upward like a Rubik’s cube. The edge of the paper becomes an important consideration in creating an artifice of the colour and form that hopefully will inform in an authentic way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50f07321205f00019fe6c8/1673919315908-7MPLG96XXEKCD1OT5VH2/After+Botticelli+Flora.jpg Painting Themes - Flora: After Botticelli Collage and Drawing 70x70cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50f07321205f00019fe6c8/1673936795204-0T5RKC706IZXR9M82CT9/Party%2BGirl%2BNo%2B1.jpg Painting Themes - Party Girl No 1. Oil on Linen 152x90cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50f07321205f00019fe6c8/1601104052374-1TUFBM6BRQ4IVA3VOH8I/20200622_041241787_iOS.jpg Painting Themes - Naked woman Frontview 2020 Eucalypt and clay on Tasmanian oak 39cmx32cmx23cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50f07321205f00019fe6c8/1566786661614-W211CT3T9R3IBNYM0VK6/20190826_0026304Compenduim+3.jpg Painting Themes - A Compendium of the False Histories of Mary Magdalene No.1 Oil on Canvas 122cmx92cm https://www.heatherstewart.work/about daily 0.75 2020-01-05 https://www.heatherstewart.work/new-page daily 0.75 2020-01-05 https://www.heatherstewart.work/about-2 daily 0.75 2016-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456776682638-ETQYPR9PTECZWF5HLAON/image-asset.jpeg Contact https://www.heatherstewart.work/about-1 daily 0.75 2021-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d50f07321205f00019fe6c8/1575333980283-3Q8L1L16TSAKSVQZT03G/In+studio.jpg About