Morven Stewart

Morven Stewart is a painter and printmaker based in Scotland. We say her location loosely as trying to pin this artist down in one place is tricky! Left unattended, she’ll sneak off to the mountains to sketch snowdrifts and ptarmigans or scramble down sea cliffs to stand in the waves with a brush and ink bottle.

She was brought up on a diet of storytelling and adventure, with summers spent in tents and homemade dens, winters on skis falling into snowdrifts. The wild places of Scotland and Iceland draw her back now as a visual artist and she fills her sketchbooks with tall tales and adventure sketches. Morven explores landscapes and records her experiences ‘plein air’, highlighting the importance of exploring our wild places safely, with consideration to who we share the land with and our impact on it. She works with what she can carry (and what can survive the weather!)—oils for dreich days by windswept shores, inks and watercolours for those rare, glorious hours of sunshine.

Her recent work has delved a little deeper into capturing the power and impact of weather and wave, obsessing over movement, light and colour, and becoming part of the movement.

In 2025, she was shortlisted for the Scottish Landscape Awards and accepted to the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Watercolour Prize Exhibition. She was awarded a VACMA Early Career Bursary to undertake a printmaking course and, in January, was interviewed while hiking up Morven (the hill) by BBC Radio Scotland for their Scotland Outdoors Podcast.