Stuart White

Baltimore, MD

Stewart White is one of the rare plein air painters using the medium of watercolor. His background in architectural illustration adds to his skill set and his paintings reflect his knowledge of good design. Stewart’s paintings have the pleasing combination of good structure with a painterly style. He is a transparent watercolorist  in the purest tradition of watercolor painters. Where as watercolor expresses its nature as fluid  oil paint is stiff and seems to want to be expressed in a thick and buttery way.

He studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and after serving 3 years in the US Army he returned to graduate from UC Berkeley with a BFA. He works as an architectural illustrator and designer. His watercolors both in his architecture illustrations and in painting competitions have won him many awards. In June 2009 he was invited to teach a workshop in Paris on his techniques for architectural watercolors to an organization of architects. He continues to teach in Paris.

Professional Affiliations

Stewart is President of the Mid-Atlantic Plein-Air Painters Association (MAPAPA). He exhibits his paintings in juried and gallery exhibitions throughout the US. He is the Grand Prize Winner of the prestigious Olmsted Plein Air Invitational (2016) Easton Plein air Festival (2009)  and  Plein Air magazine's Grand Prize Salon. He was a featured artist in McBride Gallery’s June 2009 exhibit: “Rising Stars: 10 Artists to Watch.”  Stewart is a member of the American Impressionists Society(AIS), a signature member of the National Watercolor Society ( NWS), a signature member of

The American Watercolor Society (AWS) . and past President (2012) of The American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI).Patrick Saunders has received awards from the Laguna Plein Air Painting Invitational, Plein Air Easton, Plein Air Richmond (Best In Show), the Maui Plein Air Painting Invitational, Plein Air Texas, the Oil Painters of America, Sedona Plein Air (Best In Show), the Lighthouse Plein Air Festival, the Gateway International Painting Competition (Best In Show), the Outdoor Painters Society, the Eureka Springs Plein Air Festival, the Airstream Fine Art Invitational, Buck’s County Plein Air, and the Sedona Art Prize

Publications

His work has been recently featured in multiple exhibitions, including the Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition, the American Impressionist Society’s National Juried Exhibition, the Laguna Plein Air Painters Best of Plein Air and Signature Impressions shows, the Outdoor Painters Society’s Plein Air Southwest Salon, the Airstream Fine Art Invitational and the Richeson School of Art’s Figure and Portrait Exhibition.

Website:  https://www.stewartwhitestudios.com/