Lorna Stewart Art (2025)

19/01/2024

From start to finish ... with a few layers not photographed in between! Always interesting to see where a painting takes you …

Acrylic paint and oil pastel on canvas panel in a St Ives frame (beautifully made by Alan ), 44x54cm.

Distant Longing 1 and 2 available to purchase. DM for more details.

16/01/2024

Definitely a varnishing and keeping cosy kind of day …

12/01/2024

Happy New Year! I’ve been quiet on here but busy elsewhere! I completed this little pair in December. In the Woods 1 and 2 were inspired by dog walks in nearby fields next to the River Bollin. Not a colour palette I usually use but I really surprised myself by enjoying working with different yellows. Acrylic paint/ink and oil pastels on canvas panel, in a St Ives frame, 34x34cm. Only one available and to be added to my website soon.

03/11/2023

Delighted to have had ‘Summer Days 1’ and ‘Summer Days 2’ selected for the Winter Open Exhibition. Running from Friday 3 November 2023 (preview evening) until 14 January 2024.

Both pieces were inspired by a summer holiday spent in the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland with its ever-changing and expansive skies.

Acrylic on wooden board in beautiful St Ives frames.
34x34cm
£125 each.

17/10/2023

I wasn’t expecting to actually produce any artwork at the end of the contemporary landscape course but this seemed to come together at the last minute. So different to what I would normally paint, but so freeing to try something new! Thank you for your fabulous teaching.

17/10/2023

Just spent the most fabulous weekend at taking part in Rachel Cronin’s contemporary landscape course. Lovely people (and animals!), inspirational surroundings, informative teaching and all-in-all, a wonderful art retreat. Thank you and Andy for your hospitality and for providing such a unique art experience.

15/09/2023

It’s been a while … and always good to start small when getting back into the swing of things again. Am loving the way the sun is shining into my studio this morning …

07/07/2023

Not my artwork this time, but how beautiful is this cake by … and how on earth did my eldest suddenly become an adult!

23/05/2023

A recent commission of South Milton Sands, Devon, now finished and in its new home, to be enjoyed.

09/03/2023

Happy and proud that my painting ‘Hebridean Calm’ has been selected for the next exhibition 'Round-A-Bout' at gallery in
Warrington.

The exhibition runs from Sunday 12th March until the end of May.

Thank you Matt and Jo for organising what I know will be another super exhibition.

‘Hebridean Calm’ - acrylic on wooden board in a St Ives frame, 49x59cm, £285

06/03/2023

Happy 2nd birthday to this little bundle of mischief. A rare photo of her behaving (well, succumbing to sleep!) in my studio.

16/01/2023

I love these St Ives frames - they really make a painting come alive! Thank you Alan for making these!

This painting, ‘Summer Sands’, was bought by a customer for their mum’s Christmas. Hopefully bringing them some warmth on these cold winter days!

16/01/2023

This was a commission for a 50th birthday - it’s of Sandend beach, on the Moray coast in Scotland. What a beautiful location!

09/01/2023

Day 8 of the art challenge set by

INSPIRATION

This is an easy one. The sea and the coast!

Although I now live south of Manchester, I was born and raised in Scotland, so I’m lucky enough to go there fairly frequently to stay with family. I have close family on both the west and east coast. Two very different types of coastline but both beautiful in their own right. I love painting the big skies of the east coast in Fife and I have taken what seems like a million photographs of different sky-scapes. Not to mention the collection of photos which my lovely sister-in-law sends of the West Sands beach in St Andrews!

I also spend time on the island of Angelsey in Wales. The beaches and seas are so inspiring, and a photograph taken of the same view on one day can look so very different on another, depending on the weather (which is ever-changing!). The sea colour in particular looks different all the time … from muted greys to varying shades of greens and blues.

09/01/2023

Late posting of day 7 of the art challenge set by

COLOUR PALETTE

In most of my work, I try to keep a fairly limited palette as the painting can look too cluttered otherwise. As I often paint seascapes, I use a lot of blues and greens … My favourite blue is Prussian blue - it’s so versatile. I often paint with it straight out of the tube where you get that beautiful deep colour. Or mixed with varying amounts of white to create much lighter, softer tones …

09/01/2023

A busy weekend, so here are the catch-up posts of the art challenge set by

Day 6:

CURRENT CHALLENGE

There always seem to be challenges, but at the moment, it’s about balancing my time between working on commissions, and with painting what I choose to paint. Of course it’s great having commissions, but there is a brief to follow (a challenge within a challenge!), so you can kind of lose that sense of freedom, and in turn, it can become difficult not to let your creativity be inhibited.

So my plan is to spend some time on both. Which is easier said than done when you’re me as I tend to finish one painting first before starting a new one. Perhaps mixing it up a bit will be good for me. It is a challenge, after all!

I did this painting a couple of months ago and am now happy that it’s finished. So now it’s time to get the varnish out …

06/01/2023

Day 5 of the art challenge set by

FAVOURITE TOOL

Like most artists, I use brushes and palette knives etc, but the thing I most love is to use my fingers. I especially like using them when working on either smooth paper or smooth wooden boards - the paint just glides around so well. There’s a feeling of both freedom and control. Is that possible? I think so!

24/11/2022

Just dropped ‘Hebridean Skies’ off to add to my other painting ‘Before the Storm’. Both will be showing at the Winter Exhibition at Inch Art Gallery, Altrincham. Running from this Friday 25 November until 4 February. Both paintings available to buy.

24/11/2022

SOLD! Just delivered ‘Distant Horizon’ to the most lovely buyer who wanted help in positioning it so that she could see it from her favourite seating area in her lounge. Feeling humbled.

17/11/2022

A quick snapshot of some of the seascapes I’m working on at the moment. A couple complete, a couple still needing some more work. Inspired by the beautiful white sands of the Hebrides.
Now to clear up the mess …

09/11/2022

Delighted that two of my paintings have been selected for the winter exhibition at Inch Art Gallery, Altrincham.
(Photo of my paintings taken by me whilst standing on my tippy toes on the dining room chair!)
‘Before the Storm’ and ‘Distant Horizon’ will be available to purchase at the exhibition which will run from 25 November until 4 February.

Inch Art Gallery
20 Stamford New Road
Altrincham
WA14 1EJ

08/10/2022

So here I am at Technically Brilliant Gallery at the ‘WOW’ exhibition’s opening evening.

So humbling to see my artwork hanging next to some incredible pieces. I even made it onto the front of the brochure too …!

Thank you Jo and Matt for hosting a lovely evening.

07/10/2022

Delighted that ‘Summer Days 1’ and ‘Summer Days 2’ have been chosen for the ‘WOW’ exhibition at Technically Brilliant gallery in Warrington which opens this Sunday 9 October.

55 artists chosen from a large open call. Some amazing and affordable work available from northwest artists.

Come along and see for yourself! Open Weds - Sun 11am-4pm.

07/10/2022

This was a wedding present I created for my good friend Pippa of beautiful Islay. To remind her and Mike of a special holiday they had on the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.

07/10/2022

I was asked by a group of ladies to create a painting of Loch Lomond as a wedding present for their friend’s daughter. I’m lucky enough to have parents that have lived right by the loch for nearly 30 years, and so I have oodles of inspiration. ‘Over the Loch’ was completed in the summer. So lovely to get this note, too, from the ‘Helensburgh ladies’ …

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