Convallaria majalis is the very first plant Honour placed on a light table to photograph. She was in awe of the transparent nature revealed and began her journey of photographing plants.
Artifact 1 2022
Honour Hiers Stewart
Artist statement
I am an artist appealing to the Natural World. An artist of the science and biology of our planet. An artist heightening the awareness of our beautiful flora, embracing the senses, and exploring the unknown. An artist returning us to our roots and all the makes us fulfilled and whole.
I am trying to create a Universal Language with my botanical artwork. In my journey of photographing plants, I have come to realize that people are like plants. As we learn and elevate the plants of the world we will also be elevating one another and creating a dialogue about our landscape and planet. We will be creating a social consciousness that will engage us to be better humans and stewards.
The journey may be hard at times, but we will uncover and explore all that we do not know and share our wealth of skills and knowledge with each other.
Honour Hiers Stewart/ artist
Honour has been photographing plants with her large format film camera since 2010.
She has been working with textiles doing botanical printing and natural dying since 2019.
She has a B.F.A. in Photography from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2000.
She resides in Asheville, North Carolina and Traverse City, Michigan with her spouse, Douglas Stewart and 5 cats.
She has exhibited her work in Asheville, NC, Traverse City, Petoskey and Northport, MI (Best in Show 2019, Best Creative Color 2022) and in London, UK (Bronze Medal 2018).
Collections include Duke Medical Pavilion and private residences in Florida, North Carolina and Michigan.
Exhibit at the Royal Horticultural Society’s London Plant and Art Fair, 2018.
Honour at the Louvre bookstore holding a copy of Plant in French.
Honour is featured in the above book published by Phaidon, ..."The international panel of experts, coordinated by James A. Compton (a professor and plant collector at the University of Reading, with expertise in botany, evolutionary biology and systematics), who selected the 300 images of this book did an outstanding job in choosing a great variety of examples in terms of epochs, styles, techniques, authors, and visions, to illustrate the resilient mankind’s fascination with making images of plants. What makes this book unique, in the crowded landscape of works devoted to botanical illustrations, is the arrangement of the artworks into sequences aimed at provoking contrasts and similarities between pairs of images. So, you have, opposed Aristolochia spp. rendered in gouache on vellum (Rosalie Demonte) and on large size photo transparency (Honour Hiers Stewart) (pp. 212–213)"
-LANKESTERIANA 17(2). 2017. © Universidad de Costa Rica, 2017.
Honour, 2022, in front of First Place award for Creative Color in Northport, MI.
"Honour (Love without Tragedy)" oil painting by Douglas Stewart 60x60"