Jeffree Stewart recently retired from a 33 year long career with the Washington State Department of Ecology, where he worked as a shoreline planner and floodplain specialist.  He studied oceanography at University of Washington, and is a graduate of The Evergreen State College in Olympia.   Jeffree managed to quietly integrate his environmental work for Ecology with his lifelong passion for art, gradually becoming an Independent Curator, and establishing the Art In Ecology Program at the Department's Headquarters Building in Lacey. Over a 21 year period, Jeffree organized and installed dozens of exhibitions by many artists for this inspiring Art in the Workplace venue.

 

Natural forms, atmospheres, landscapes, subjects and colors of our beautiful Northwest are often prominent in his own oil paintings, prints, and drawings. Jeffree has exhibited his work around the northwest in college and museum juried exhibitions, commercial galleries, and numerous private collections. He has spent many days with painters, poets, and photographers from Seattle, the Skagit and Northern Sound region of Washington... and learned many techniques and art philosophies from his painter mentors and elder friends.  He has 2 art studios, in Maple Valley and Olympia where oil painting is his primary medium. Jeffree has a wonderful high school aged son, enjoys his own private collection of art, continues painting daily, and lives with his family at Maple Valley.