Steven Plews has always been creative all his life and his talents range from the visual arts, digital arts, culinary arts, printmaking and photography. In 1990 he received a certificate in Arts Fundamentals at Sheridan College, and from there he took a four year degree in Experimental Arts and Printmaking at Ontario College of Art. He has also did a 4 month certificate in Graphic Design at Humber College. In 2011 he had a bad work place accident in which change his life due to dealing with post traumatic stress disorder. The biggest change in this event was having difficulty in finding his vision in the visual arts. As part of his healing process he took up photography and mainly concentrated on close ups of plants and flowers. As a reflection to Georgia O'Keeffe closeup paintings of flowers Steve in his own unique vision has capture form, colour and the essence of the botany of flowering plants.