This gallery's simple and straight-forward character, its plain black background, simple text format and easy navigation, quickly directs its audience's eyes to where it should be - the artworks themselves. Brilliant colors and forms with curious detail advance forth from a dark, uncluttered plane. The Stewart Gallery is a collection of artworks, by J.M. Stewart and Alan Stewart, that generally captures its subjects' raw aesthetic qualities, through passionate execution of various art styles. Most of these pieces give off a sense of serenity, a quality that probably owes itself to stunning views on the Great Smoky Mountains landscape that lent inspiration to the Stewarts. This, and a genuine appreciation for the visual arts that was seeded since childhood. Palette knife is another one of the techniques that the artist use. This method of painting uses a palette knife in place of a paint brush. Paint is then directly applied onto canvas to create strokes and textures th...