Finding and expressing mystery in everyday life has always been Mark Stewart’s artistic credo . . . the patternless life and color of a crazy quilt, the silent invitation of a canoe waiting to cross the open water, the poignance of a child’s abandoned tea party. Perhaps it is possible to see the tragedy and serendipity of Mark’s personal life in his paintings. In 1995, he lost his wife to breast cancer, leaving him with three young children. Several years later he began corresponding with a young widowed mother of three. Their letters, culminating in marriage and a completed family, have been compiled and illustrated with Mark’s paintings entitled Heartwork, which is excerpted and presented on this web site.