Pencil Lines & Charcoal Dust

 Mark is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Environmental Design and a Master of Architecture, and is a registered architect in Texas. Mark began drawing around age 5 but did not begin painting until after college. He is largely self-taught, drawing on realist painters like Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, and Edward Hopper.

"Drawing is a fundamental way of engaging the world, a primary way of encountering reality," Stewart says. "I believe my desire to draw anchored me to realism... it is satisfying to see a three-dimensional reality emerge on a two-dimensional sheet of paper."