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      • Chris Brown.
      • Rebecca Howdeshell
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    • Milessa Murphy Stewart
    • Le Salon 2022
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    • Soft and Hard of 3D
    • Trois Colors 2022
    • L'Fleur de Art
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    • Lucy Tolkunova
    • Jodie Beck
    • Solo Show Josh Rhodes
    • Winter Season
    • Le Salon
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    • celebrating woman artists
    • emerging
    • Pop Up.. the artwork of Ty fawley
    • Soft and Hard of 3d
    • inbetween by Romulo Martinez
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      • Didi AlKassih
    • Solo Show | Keith Miller
    • art en blanc 2020
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    • eye of the lens
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    • Art en Blanc 2018
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    • students@work2018
    • Eye of the Lens 2017
    • Targets and Tangents
    • Art Fair
    • forty @ 100
    • RED 2018
    • Olivia Ogren-Hrejsa’s solo show
    • 50yrs of Art and Love
    • Envision Arts Project | Aptitude
    • TIME | Peggy Nichols Collection Art and Love
    • Art en Blanc 2017
    • Chet Tucker | the journey
    • through the eye of lens 2016
    • Tom Freeman|Solo Show
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    • PIECES of PIECES
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    • Debra Helmburger Photography
    • Botanicals
    • Conduit
    • the heArt project
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      • Kenneth Harrison
      • Christer Hiort
      • Patty Lebed Hess
      • Maegan Kirschner
      • John Lightle
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MILESSA MURPHEY STEWART

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​Yes, My Name Is Spelled
M-I-L-E-S-S-A
It’s A Funny Story For Another Time.

I have a lifetime filled with artistic expression that began as I  learned to read. I loved drawing characters from Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip. I would fill pages with drawings of cartoons such as Snoopy and Charlie Brown. Although my mature artwork is much different, however my desire for happiness and joy remain in my work.
I love positive energy in art and color. The urge to add color in each of my pieces may stem from the sepia-toned memories of my youth in West Texas. There wasn’t a lot of color in the dry, rugged landscape that I grew up in. It also stems from my desire to keep my paintings energetic and inspiring.
As an only child, I grew up to be highly independent. This is reflected in my first formal attempt at becoming an artist when I was 12 years old. After seeing a television commercial advertising an art university, I decided to apply. I submitted her drawings and was accepted. When I divulged my plans to my mother, I learned I wasn’t old enough to attend. Despite this truth, the experience and hope of art school cemented my identity as an artist.
Although I never stopped being an artist, I had to pause my dreams due to the pressure to have “real work” and earn a steady income. During my mother’s passing in 2008, everything changed. Lovingly, my mother’s last words, “I want you to promise me you will sell your businesses and get back to your painting. I am sorry I did not take your art seriously.” Those words helped make it easier to let the businesses go and return to the easel.
I paint daily, either in my studio or while I travel in my RV around the US. It’s an experience in itself, as you will be able to enter an imaginative world with your own experiences mixed with mine. My artworks are joyful, which is my intention; full of light and delight because I like “happy”.
One of my series called Dreamscapes, is a collection of impressionistic paintings that combine humor and whimsy that “capture the imagination” through narratives,  color and experiences. I like to use old black and white photos from the late 1800’s, early 1900’s, as a basis for the story line/painting and then compose a story of my own. I cross the boundary between fact and fiction effortlessly.  As a diverse artist, I do have a more serious side to my painting.  Jokingly, I call my En Plein Air painting (landscapes) my  “outdoor studio” and my  “indoor studio” for creating my still-life’s. Having these different outlets (or genres) allow me to explore and share my art with different audiences. However, I will say that when I began studying still life about 2 years ago, I found a real passion for them and probably spend more time painting them than the others…at least for now, LOL! 
I live and work in the DFW area where my husband and I raise one of our young grandsons. I actually homeschool him due to ADHD and his learning disabilities. It’s a challenge to handle it all but rewarding, as well. Life is good; and as Walt Disney said, “Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age and dreams are forever!”
 
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  • Who We Are
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  • Upcoming Shows 2023
    • L'Fleur de Art
    • Soft and Hard 3d Exhibition
    • BLUE is BACK
    • Art en Blanc
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      • Vidya Lakshmi Nikesh
      • Chris Brown.
      • Rebecca Howdeshell
  • art workshops@thegallery8680
  • Previous Shows
    • RED 2023
    • All for One | One for All
    • Milessa Murphy Stewart
    • Le Salon 2022
      • Le Salon#2 Award Winners
    • Soft and Hard of 3D
    • Trois Colors 2022
    • L'Fleur de Art
    • me myself and i 2022
    • Lucy Tolkunova
    • Jodie Beck
    • Solo Show Josh Rhodes
    • Winter Season
    • Le Salon
    • RED
    • celebrating woman artists
    • emerging
    • Pop Up.. the artwork of Ty fawley
    • Soft and Hard of 3d
    • inbetween by Romulo Martinez
    • GUNS in USA 2020
      • Didi AlKassih
    • Solo Show | Keith Miller
    • art en blanc 2020
    • art en blanc 2019
    • eye of the lens
    • RED 2019
    • BLUE 2019
    • Art en Blanc 2018
    • NORTH
    • students@work2018
    • Eye of the Lens 2017
    • Targets and Tangents
    • Art Fair
    • forty @ 100
    • RED 2018
    • Olivia Ogren-Hrejsa’s solo show
    • 50yrs of Art and Love
    • Envision Arts Project | Aptitude
    • TIME | Peggy Nichols Collection Art and Love
    • Art en Blanc 2017
    • Chet Tucker | the journey
    • through the eye of lens 2016
    • Tom Freeman|Solo Show
    • RED | 2017
    • PIECES of PIECES
    • Out Of My Mind
    • RED2020
    • Debra Helmburger Photography
    • Botanicals
    • Conduit
    • the heArt project
    • RED 2016
    • 101x101
    • Five In One
    • artseen tour frisco 2015
    • IDENTITY
    • Ecology
    • PLAY
    • BLUE
    • asher d feehan
    • me myself and I
    • artist exhibited in me myself i
    • celebrating women artists
    • Denise Lion | Solo Show
    • CoLoR
    • me myself and i
    • artseen artists studio tour
    • CityScapes
    • artists and works CityScapes
    • art for art sake
    • consignment form for art for art sake
    • emerging
    • festival of trees
    • festival of trees
    • identity and cast 2013
    • North Texas Printmakers Guild
    • Looking Around - Solo Show of Misty Oliver Foster
    • LOUNGE
    • LOUNGE
    • me myself and i
    • misty oliver - foster
    • Originals
    • PLACE
    • RED
    • RED
    • six
    • SPRING-thePersian New Year
    • water
    • Trois Colors
    • Earth Day
    • Melange of Color
      • Andrea Lamarsaude
      • Anindita Dasgupta
      • Bev Calton
      • Cynthia Coldren
      • Kathleen Mekailek
      • Kathy Mackey
      • Lavanya Challa
      • Madhupriya Srinivasan
      • Matt Chenet
      • Milessa Murphy Stewart
      • Patty Lebed Hess
      • Romulo Martinez
      • Sharonza Penson
      • Terry Parshall
      • Trish Poupard
    • water
    • Celebration Night
    • BLUE 2020
    • Festival of Trees
    • MIX Art Exhibition 2021
    • The Mix Exhibition The Gallery 8680
    • Photography 2020
      • Suad Bejtovic
      • Kenneth Harrison
      • Christer Hiort
      • Patty Lebed Hess
      • Maegan Kirschner
      • John Lightle
      • Brandi Mieger
      • Christine Miller
      • Cheryl Parshall
      • Any Santos