Mike
Stemple

Mike Stemple has returned to his art career at Stemple Studios after a 15-year hiatus. The break didn't slow him down — it made him hungrier. He came back to his first love, creating paintings on glass, with a clarity of purpose he didn't have the first time around.

In the mid-1990s, Mike was a fixture of the Denver art scene, painting three large-scale murals that became landmarks in the city. One of them — featuring John Elway — was featured every week on Monday Night Football. He painted his first mural on the wall of his bedroom as a kid. “I was lucky to have supportive and understanding parents,” he says. “Without them, my works would have been much smaller.”

Today, Mike works through Stemple Studios to create one-of-one paintings on tempered glass for clients worldwide: NFL alumni, Gary Vaynerchuk, the Dodgers, private collectors, and anyone who wants something they'll live with for decades. He doesn't make prints of originals. He doesn't reproduce his paintings. Each piece exists once — on glass, outlasting the moment it captures.