The Happier We’ll Be

Rooftop Agriculture Is Good For The Environment And Good For Our Health 30×24

Nature Prescriptions 48x60

Super Communicators Ask Ten To Twenty Times More Questions Than The Average Person 37x19

There Are Now More Cyclists Than Motorists In Paris 40x60

Practicing Forgiveness Can Lower The Risk Of Heart Problems And Anxiety 16x16

A Groundhog Has Been Stealing A Farmers Crop And Eating It In Front Of A Camera 40x30

Student Invents Leaf Blower Silencer 16x16

Granddaughter Teaches Eighty Year Old Grandma How To Surf 36x48

Missing Husky Found Roaming With Grizzly Bears 36x18

Forest Guardians Help Red Panda Conservation 40x30

People Are Celebrating The Art Of Doing Nothing 12x12

Scientists Analyze Human Nature and Discover We Are Good After All 36x48

Child Hears His Mom For The First Time 40x30

5 Year Old Reads To Care Home Residents 40x60

For Her One Hundred And Second Birthday She Collected Four Hundred Cans Of Food For Those In Need 36x48

Experiencing Awe Can Slow Our Perception Of Time 48x36

Caring Employees At Wildlife Centre Dress Up Like A Mother Fox To Save Abandoned Cub 40x40

They Were Looking For The Good In Each Other 40x40

According To A New Study, Birds Convey Politeness Through Wing Gestures 48x48

Missing Husky Found Roaming With Grizzly Bears 36x18

There Are Now More Cyclists Than Motorists In Paris 40x60

Sarah Cares About The Goats In The World

Nature Prescriptions 48x60

Ninety-Nine Year Old Swimmer Breaks Three World Records 40x60

France Outlaws Catcalling Of Women In Public 39x31

Scientists Analyze Human Nature and Discover We Are Good After All 36x48

Chicago Woman, One Hundred Four Years Old, Skydives From Plane 40x60

Child Hears His Mom For The First Time 40x30

The World Has More Trees Than It Did Thirty-Five Years Ago 40x40

Teacher

Teacher Gives Students A Lesson On Happiness 36x48

Seventy-Seven Year Old Woman Gets Married To Herself 40x30

He Showed Up And Took Care Of Everybody 33x48

Millionaire Builds Ninety-Nine Tiny Homes To Cut Homelessness 36x18

They Helped Nearly Every Community In The Region 36x36

Friendships Are Good For Your Health 36x18

Cow Hugging Therapy Is Scientifically Proven To Reduce Stress In Cows And Humans 16x16

Living Communally Can Help Us Feel Less Lonely 16x16

People Are Showing Up For Each Other 16x16

A Recent Study Confirms Happiness Comes From Making Others Feel Happy 30x40

The Happier We’ll Be

In a time of polarization, it’s tempting to retreat to our separate corners, believing that difference is dangerous. As the world grows increasingly torn into opposing perspectives, it can feel impossible to recognize our common values and experiences. The languages we speak, the votes we cast, the histories we remember—these deep ways of understanding ourselves often feel threatened by voices that seem to compete with our own.

Amy Stewart’s latest series engages with the possibilities of unity across these uncomfortable positions, finding parallels between human and environmental (dis)connections. Stewart looks at the sharp features of buildings in her urban home as shapes that oddly coordinate with the surrounding sea and mountains. She sees a random synchronicity in the competing layers of nature and development—a conversation between opposing origins that, from a new angle, feel connected rather than dissonant. Many of the shapes in Stewart’s paintings do not at first fit naturally together, but the beauty in their eventual harmony reminds Stewart of people’s ability to become better humans by understanding others.

Each painting in The Happier We’ll Be pulls together dissonant shapes with a playful eye. Inspired by architecture and nature, the shapes at first seem haphazardly suspended, but they also support one another, joining from disparate parts into a unified whole. A thin line along or across the shapes suggests the ties that unite us through our differences. Like the random good news stories from which Stewart pulls the titles for the pieces in this series, these paintings push against division, insisting on all the beautiful ways we come together, finding kinship with the natural world and each other.