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about the artists
Her origins are in a small New England factory town, but
her home is in the Great Smoky Mountains.
"I started drawing and painting at my mother's knee. She was a Sunday painter
and she loved art. She taught me to see."
J.M. Stewart studied oil painting first under Frank Lovejoy. She won a
scholarship for special sessions at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and
attended Vesper George School of Art, also in Boston, Massachusetts.
She started painting with a palette knife in the mid seventies when she was a
stay-at-home-Mom. She exhibited her work extensively throughout New England.
In the eighties and nineties she took a different turn to create an extensive
line of decorative slate plaques and clocks sold to retailers across the
country.
J.M. Stewart currently has her own gallery in the Great Smoky Arts and Crafts
Community in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. You can often find her there working in all
kinds of mediums and on all kinds of surfaces.
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