Aleta Steward

 

 

 

Wren and White Petunias, oil on linen, 11" x 14", $2,900

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Golden Pears , oil on linen, 5" x 7", $1,100

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Local Color 2
Oil on Linen
18" x 24"
$4,800.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Misty Garden Song, oil on panel, 24 " x 18", $5,400

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apple , oil on linen, 5" x 7", $1,100

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nantucket Red, egg tempera and 22k gold leaf on panel, 11" x 14", $2,900

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drops of Nectar, Drops of Rain , oil on linen, 10 " x 20 ", $4,200

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Dancing Faun, oil on linen, 24 " x 18", $5,400

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pull, egg tempera and 22k gold leaf on panel, 11" x 14", $2,900

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Oldest House, oil on linen, 16 " x 20 ", $4,600

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aleta Steward began drawing and painting as a child. She studied briefly at the Art Students League in New York City, but her formative painting years were spent in northern California. When she relocated her studio to Cape Cod in 1987, she applied her observational skills to the local coastal habitat which included herons, plovers, and ospreys as well as the songbirds which remain her central subject. She has won major prizes from the New England Woodcarving and Wildlife Art Expo in 1993 and 1994, and from the Massachusetts Audubon Society in 1994 and 1995. 

Over the past few years, Steward’s paintings have been changing to reflect her solution to a compositional problem that is particularly relevant to wildlife artists working in a highly realistic style.  Steward has increasingly tended to defocus and partially abstract her backgrounds in order to suggest intricate habitats while at the same time making certain that we as viewers never lose our sharp focus and fascination with a reality of life revealed as feathers, eyes, and the potential of quick flight which will make the subject vanish.

Aleta Steward is a member of the Society of Animal Artists and has been the subject of profiles and articles in various publications, including Cape Cod Life magazine.