Stewart Lawrence
Art Gallery
Art that resonates with viewers on both visual and emotional levels
A Gentle Breeze
48×60 Oil and acrylic on canvas
Lawrence
2025
In this mixed media painting, a graceful ballerina glides across a lily pad over tranquil waters, her white dress billowing like a vessel of innocence. Symbolically, she embodies delicate transformation and poise amid uncertainty—dancing on fragile foundations.
The lotus flowers below rise pure from murky depths, representing spiritual awakening, purity, and rebirth through adversity. Fluttering butterflies evoke metamorphosis, the soul’s fleeting beauty, and gentle renewal.
Glowing orbs drift like ethereal portals or captured light, suggesting higher consciousness, divine guidance, or moments of enlightenment suspended in time.
Bathed in warm sunset hues, the scene whispers of transcendence: a quiet journey from the earthly to the luminous, where grace blooms eternal.
Journey Across the Cosmic Waters
24×30 Acrylic on canvas
Lawrence
2025
The painting portrays a solitary figure in a wooden boat, embarking on a contemplative journey of self-discovery through the uncertainties of life. The golden sky, with its warm, radiant tones, reflects hope and the promise of a new beginning, while the cool blue lily pads beneath symbolize the depths of the subconscious and emotional introspection. A lone red flower floating on the water embodies passion and resilience, a fleeting yet striking beacon of beauty amidst the vast unknown, weaving a narrative of inner exploration and quiet optimism.
Observation
16×20 Acrylic on canvas
Lawrence
2025
The painting features a graceful figure with delicate wings, reclining on a vibrant surface, embodying freedom and the ethereal beauty of the human spirit. The golden-orange backdrop radiates warmth and optimism, symbolizing a journey toward enlightenment, while the blue lilies and celestial orbs reflect a deep connection to nature and the cosmos. The reflective water beneath mirrors this harmony, suggesting introspection and the soul’s serene evolution.
The Seeker
48×24 Acrylic on canvas
Lawrence
2025
This painting unveils a vivid, dreamlike vista of “Historic Lillyland.” A lone figure in a dark suit slumps gracefully with his head submerged, amid a golden-hued landscape. A signpost stands sentinel, its weathered frame hinting at forgotten tales, while a bold red bloom and a mysterious black orb float against a warm, sunset-drenched sky, blending reality with whimsical fantasy
Balance
18x24 Acrylic on canvas
Lawrence
2025
The painting depicts a graceful dancer with delicate wings, poised mid-motion above a reflective surface, set against a vibrant golden-orange backdrop dotted with blue lilies, red accents, and celestial orbs.
Moonwalk on Mishap || SOLD
24×18 Acrylic on canvas
Lawrence
2025
The painting features a graceful figure with delicate wings, reclining on a vibrant surface, embodying freedom and the ethereal beauty of the human spirit. The golden-orange backdrop radiates warmth and optimism, symbolizing a journey toward enlightenment, while the blue lilies and celestial orbs reflect a deep connection to nature and the cosmos. The reflective water beneath mirrors this harmony, suggesting introspection and the soul’s serene evolution.
Transformation || SOLD
16x20 Acrylic on canvas
Lawrence
2025
The symbolism of the painting reveals a figure rising from a vibrant red lotus, embodying purity, rebirth, and spiritual awakening, with a golden background radiating enlightenment and divine energy. The blue lilies mirror emotional depth and tranquility, while celestial orbs scattered throughout connect to the cosmos and the infinite, hinting at a transformative journey toward higher consciousness or inner peace.
Grace
24×30 Acrylic on canvas
Lawrence
2025
This vibrant painting depicts a graceful dancer in a flowing blue and purple costume, poised with arms raised as if embracing the cosmos. The golden background, reminiscent of a radiant sunset or a celestial glow, reflects on a shimmering water surface, symbolizing harmony between earth and sky. The scattered orbs and splashes of color evoke planets and stardust, suggesting a dance with the universe. The dancer’s ethereal wings hint at transformation or spiritual elevation, blending human artistry with the infinite mysteries of the cosmos.
Ethereal Embrace || SOLD
30×40 Acrylic on canvas
Lawrence
2025
This work unfurls a mesmerizing tapestry of surreal elegance, where a dashing couple twirls in an ethereal dance atop a glistening lily pad. The man, cloaked in a shadowy suit and a rakish hat tilted just so, sweeps the woman into a passionate embrace, her crimson dress swirling like a flame caught in a cosmic breeze.
Mystic Tango || SOLD
36×48 Acrylic on canvas
Lawrence
2025
In “Mystic Tango,” a masked phantom in fedora and tuxedo dips his scarlet-gowned partner into a passionate, gravity-defying plunge across a shimmering lily pond at sunset.
Her leg arcs skyward like a flame, black heel cutting the golden air, while floating orbs of sapphire, crimson, and moon-white drift above—silent witnesses to their forbidden dance.
The water mirrors the blaze of twilight, lotus blooms glow like embers, and the lovers merge mystery and desire in one suspended, electric moment: elegance veiled, passion unmasked
Echoes of the Amber Abyss
Each canvas is 30x40 acrylic
Lawrence
2025
This diptych acrylic painting captures a poignant, mirrored moment of quiet longing.
On the left panel, a woman in a sleek green dress stands with her back to us, gazing through a grid of dark windowpanes toward a luminous, lotus-strewn pond bathed in warm amber and rose twilight.
On the right, a man in a deep burgundy suit mirrors her pose, hands in pockets, facing the same serene, rippling water dotted with blue lily pads and soft glowing orbs.
Divided yet united by the same view, the two figures stand in parallel solitude—close in spirit, separated by an invisible threshold—against a dreamy, golden-hour expanse that feels both intimate and infinitely distant
“Eve”
24×30 Oil on canvas
Lawrence
2025
“Eve” sits bare and luminous, her golden hair cascading like a veil of dawn. Before her, the shadowed tree bends with three rose-red orbs of temptation, while a single crimson lotus glows on the mirrored water-quite element of the first knowing. She gazes into the twilight depths, poised at the exquisite edge of innocence and the fall yet to come.
A Roar in Lilyworld
36×36 Mixed media on canvas
Lawrence
2025
A midnight tiger erupts from the shadows, jaws wide in a bone-rattling roar, amber eyes blazing. Beneath its massive form, a lone crimson lotus glows on dark water—a quiet ember of grace against the storm of fur and fury.
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