Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley is Adam Stewart's inspiration, and he feels compelled to convey on canvas the invisible forces which have shaped the landscape. The result is an organic, highly-textured canvas colored with simultaneously rich and deep yet soft and muted hues.

Adam first sculpts the canvas' surface using a variety of tools. With these, he scrapes, trowels and engraves to create texture and then adds sand, pebbles and small bits of glass beads and other man-made materials. He then begins coloring the work with thin washes of pigments, stains and paints, followed by thicker paint applications. He then adds metallic powders and pigments and may mix fine sands into the paint glazes, at times ending up with ten or more different layers and colors of paint. He also has added a new series of Black and White pieces.
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Adam was born in Omaha, Nebraska but spent his early childhood in Lincoln. He lived in Lincoln until he was nine years old and then moved to Basalt, Colorado. He attended high school at Basalt High School where he excelled in art classes. He went on to college at Colorado State University where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and a B.A. in Liberal Arts. At the young age of 22, Adam had his first solo show while he was still a junior in college. Adam currently resides in Colorado with his wife Sara, son Briston and daughter Aspen.

Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley is Adam Stewart's inspiration, and he feels compelled to convey on canvas the invisible forces which have shaped the landscape. The result is an organic, highly-textured canvas colored with simultaneously rich and deep yet soft and muted hues.

Adam first sculpts the canvas' surface using a variety of tools. With these, he scrapes, trowels and engraves to create texture and then adds sand, pebbles and small bits of glass beads and other man-made materials. He then begins coloring the work with thin washes of pigments, stains and paints, followed by thicker paint applications. He then adds metallic powders and pigments and may mix fine sands into the paint glazes, at times ending up with ten or more different layers and colors of paint. He also has added a new series of Black and White pieces.
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