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Stephanie Rew (b 1971) is a Scottish painter based in Edinburgh, UK.

Painting in the figurative realist style she incorporates oil paintings with gold leaf, combining traditional Early Renaissance gilding techniques with more contemporary ways of painting.

Stephanie won the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Bursary soon after graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee.

She curated the first Women Painting Women Exhibition in the UK as part of the WPW (R) evolution movement in 2013. She won the ‘Best Nude’ Award in 2018 and the FWSD Award in 2019 in Art Renewal Centre Salon, is a finalist in the ModPortrait17 and ModPortrait19 Award held in Spain.

She was a finalist at the Scottish Portrait Award 2017and has exhibited at MEAM Barcelona in both ‘Women Painting’ exhibitions held in 2019/2020 to celebrate International Women’s Day. In 2021she won the Peoples Choice Award in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine's Art Competition.