Born in Belfast 1973, John Stewart had the love of art at an early stage when starting to paint mural boards at Beechfield Primary School for the corridors under his art classes young as 8 years old.
Later in life his talent became noticed at Ashfield Boys Secondary school attending art and design classes at his classes he took a lot of interest in poster writing and was asked by his instructors to paint posters for a local circus at the age of 15 there he decided to take O and A levels in art and in 2000 after setting up a studio at home John started to become involved in fine art releasing works around local gallerys in Belfast and auction houses across the city north and south of the country there his works became popular with collectors near and far and there was a lot of interest in his canvas painting.
design and loved what he was doing. His results set him up leaving school and becoming a stained glass artist at a Belfast decorative glass studio where he sketched designs for church stained glass windows as well as signwriting, painting and glass engraving was his duties.
In 2008 he held his first exhibition in Belfast at his local library exhibiting 30 works on east belfast’s industrial past some which involved The Ropeworks and famous factorys in Belfast as well as Titanic and Harland and Wolff’ s history.
A year later he exhibited at the Square Space gallery Belfast his works involved Belfast’s past the way we lived and worked in early times some works focused on streets and buildings as well as Titanic and Harland Wolff. A while later he took part in a joint exhibition at the Higgin Gallery Malone house with another local artist which was focused on the Titanic a year before the ships centenary. He continued to carve his name across the city sign writing and painting murals with community based projects province wide also.
John as an artist today is fascinated with the early 1900’s looking at photos of early life and producing them on canvas’s’ some of his favourite paintings are the children gathering at the sweet shop in the 1960’s as well as places like Smithfield Market and Belfast’s famous landmarks and docks as well as early transport and the way we lived.
