His exquisite compositions are in the watercolor medium. A San Antonio resident, the rich colors, lights and shadows of the local scene are his dominion.

Mark A. Stewart is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Environmental Design and Masters Degree in Architecture. Upon graduation from graduate school he received the AIA Medal and Certificate for the Outstanding Graduate for the 1975-76 school year. He is a registered architect in the state of Texas and a member of the American Institute of Architects. Mark and his wife, Sue, and six children currently reside in Houston, Texas.

Mark began drawing about the age of 5, but did not begin painting until after graduation from college. For the most part Mark is self taught, drawing experience from careful studies of the works of painters like Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper. Concerning his subject matter, Mark likes to emphasize the simpler things which suggest use by people, a time or an atmosphere. With his realistic style, Mark breaks from the current trends in American art toward abstraction and expressionism. With a deep personal faith he believes he has a basis from which to verify and depict reality. Not to slavishly copy nature, but to observe and create an interpretation consistent with true reality and his personal experience.

Since 1980, when Mark began commercial exhibitions of his watercolors, he has had many One Man Exhibitions of his work and is currently represented by Morris Whiteside Galleries in Hilton Head, SC, Riverbend Fine Art in Marble Falls, Texas, and Uptown Gallery in New York. He has been featured in SOUTHWEST ART, AMERICAN ARTIST, ART TALK MAGAZINE, and US ART. Along with the commercial exhibitions, his work has been shown at the Museum of Art of the American West, the University Center Galleries at Texas A&M University, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Tuscon Museum of Art, Albuquerque Museum of Art and the Autry Museum of Western Heritage. Since 1988, New York Graphic Society and Bruce Mcgaw Graphics have been printing a selection of his paintings for world wide distribution.