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"Jennifer Stewart's art has the ability to make you experience it, not simply see it.  Beyond realism, her painting embodies the history of her subject matter while locating it spatially and surrounding it with a sense of expanding background. Her talent with brush and palette knife, texture and color, depth and meaning keeps her work ever fresh, ever rewarding, pleasing both your eye and your spirit."
                                          -Marjorie M. Story

"As an owner of several impressionist and realist paintings I immediately recognized the quality of Jennifer Stewart's work. I acquired two still life scenes and commissioned a portrait of a friend on the second hole of the Savannah Golf Club where we played a charity event.  All three works use the artist’s fine sense of shades of light and color to capture the moment".
                             -Gary D. Bunton, New York Art Collector

About the Artist

A native of Savannah, Georgia, Jennifer Stewart Day has earned awards for her artwork.  She has been featured in magazines worldwide.  Jennifer is renown for artwork and designs for rugs, textiles and accessories.  She has received several prestigious awards including, the Roscoe Award, the Oscar of the design industry Jennifer Stewart Day was named "Stylemaker 1994", Atlanta Journal Constitution and was included in the DIFFA Design for Neiman Marcus along with prominent guest celebrities like Elton John, Versace and numerous outstanding designers.

Having painted all her life Jennifer's background includes the experience of a medical research scientist and teacher of physiology and anatomy; a director of the American Red Cross working in emergency blood programs and managing disaster relief for monsoons in Bangladesh to the aftermath of hurricane Camille.

Afterwards she created an internationally recognized award winning interior design business, Day & Ernst Ltd, developing hand painted floorcloths and sisals, textile designs, and consulted on product development and trend analysis for many floorcovering and furniture manufacturers such as Simmons Mattress Company, Universal Furniture, Henredon, Ralph Lauren Galleries, Drexel Heritage, Mohawk Industries, Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles and MASCO Design Resources.

Jennifer Stewart has licensed a collection of upholstery fabrics with Sunbury Mills, MASCO Company, and a home furnishings gift line with Katha Diddell/Twin Panda. (http://www.kathadiddel.com). Jennifer's products are licensed under the name of Jennifer Stewart. She also signs her painting this way.

Jennifer Stewart attended and was featured in many international shows from Paris to Frankfurt, from Italy to Japan and of course the High Point Furniture Market. Her client base has included such notables as Steven Spielberg, Jay Rockefeller, Valentino, R. Ruben, Princess Margaret, only to mention a few. 

For the first time Jennifer Stewart now publicizes her paintings and offers them to the public.  Accomplished in a variety of subject matters she brings her unique creative style to each work. Whether the subject is a portrait, a low country scene, or urban landscape, the insight of the artist is felt in every piece. Jennifer's sense of light, color and her designer's perspective gives each painting a strong point of view. She captures the mood in every  scene as the viewer is drawn by the wonderful blend of color and light.   

A word from Jennifer

"I am a very tactile person wanting to reach out and touch everything I see-from the soft, smooth, velvety  fuzz of a new colt's back to the rough surfaces of old Savannah grey brick. I try to satisfy this urge through painting the subject.  My inspiration is often diverse, coming from many experiences:  the blaze of an April sunset reflected in the surface of the ocean's waters to the wonderful frizz of a carrot-top little girl in a doughnut shop - whether designing fabrics from soft chenille's to matte liaises or cool silks, painting on rough sisals or designing soft needlepoints, or interpreting the sensation onto painted canvas.

Savannah has all the old city charm embodied in its lovely buildings, Forsyth Park, the Squares, the cobble stone streets, the Seaboard Coastline Railroad's Roundhouse build of Savannah grey brick to service its massive old iron engines, the shrimp boat fleets, downtown's city living near the casual life on Tybee Island on the Atlantic Ocean - all surviving in a contemporary world. This contrast of the past with the contemporary, juxtaposing the old and the new enhances each and gives life energy to each -  be they emotionally charged, serene or both."