“In nature, I find that the areas where sea, sky and land converge convey great meaning and energy. My interest is to best depict this type of energy through both color field abstract painting and representational painting.  In doing so I hope to reveal a more fundamental character of what is being observed and depicted."

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Greg Stuart - Painter

Mr. Stuart is a painter, planner (www.stuarturbandesign.com,) designer and avid waterman. in the early 1980’s he lived in Copenhagen Denmark where he was compiling research in urban design as a Fellow at the Danish Royal Academy.  It was during this period that his love of travel sketches and watercolors led to a life long interest in painting and design. Greg has been painting professionally since the mid-1990’s, with studios in Matlacha, Florida and Cashmere Washington.  

Typically his work fuses the warm tropical colors of Florida with mixed media graphic gestures. For example, Mr. Stuart’s 1000 Island Park series depicted large expressionistic Florida landscape abstracts, merging color fields with semi-figurative drawings and graphical elements. His current Cashmere series incorporates larger, more vibrant color fields with heavier, less transparent color strokes and gestures.

The application of warm blues and yellows, of toned inks and blacks, generate images of things and memories that are almost tangible, but less so. Current paintings, such as Iris and White River Falls, use details from nature as the basis for exploring elemental forms and color contrasts. This approach is somewhat dramatic and mysterious, with a formalistic point of view that takes full advantage of the transparent and translucent qualities of acrylic paints balanced by opaque gouache, inks, and crayon.

Mr. Stuart’s goal is to advance painting through integrating color, gestures and graphs.  His work is influenced by the COBRA Movement of the 1950’s, Matisse, Helen Frankenthaler and Richard Diebenkorn.  He has been a notable participant in numerous group and individual exhibitions along with having a number of featured print articles. 

The Cashmere Washington Studio