Stewart Swan is a Glasgow based visual artist and designer. He graduated with a BA Honours degree in visual communication from the Edinburgh College of Art in 2005. During his degree Stewart was very fortunate in securing a place on an student exchange placement to Rhode Island School of Design in the USA where he was tutored by prominent, practicing artists designers and illustrators.
Stewart's work documents a spectrum of people, capturing their experiences, passions and
characters in the vividness of their expressions. He illustrates the impact of their harsh and unforgiving surroundings through their dark and sometimes grotesquely menacing demeanours. Through Stewart's drawings and mixed media paintings he attempts to portray the spirit of everyday faces through suggested narrative and the simple power of body language and human expression.
As a practicing artist, Stewart is accomplished in a wide variety of media and techniques - drawing, painting, illustration, graphic design and digital imaging. Over the last ten years as a freelance artist, he has been successful in showcasing his work through a number of solo and group exhibitions. This period has
enabled him to develop and mature as an painter and as a skilled communicator through the visual arts.
Stewart's work documents a spectrum of people, capturing their experiences, passions and
characters in the vividness of their expressions. He illustrates the impact of their harsh and unforgiving surroundings through their dark and sometimes grotesquely menacing demeanours. Through Stewart's drawings and mixed media paintings he attempts to portray the spirit of everyday faces through suggested narrative and the simple power of body language and human expression.
As a practicing artist, Stewart is accomplished in a wide variety of media and techniques - drawing, painting, illustration, graphic design and digital imaging. Over the last ten years as a freelance artist, he has been successful in showcasing his work through a number of solo and group exhibitions. This period has
enabled him to develop and mature as an painter and as a skilled communicator through the visual arts.
