by Lisa Aurand
Flowers, vases and textiles are the vehicles for painter’s fascination with color and light
Carol Stewart has a quiet manner about her. In her studio on the south side of the Milo Arts center, she works for seven or eight hours a day on her still life oil paintings as she listens to classical music or jazz.
She arranges jars, pots, vases, boxes, flowers and fruits; adjusts studio lights that mimic sunlight; and, of course, paints. Color, light, transparency and the marks of the brush on the page are her main modes of communicating with the viewer, Stewart says.
Canadian by birth, Stewart came to Columbus via St. Louis two years ago, following her geneticist husband, who took a position as a cancer researcher at The Ohio State University.