Phoebe Stone is a passionate artist. She enjoys the process of making her work but it is clear she equally loves the subject matter she depicts. Jewel Box is an uplifting exhibition celebrating delicious seafood, wine, bunches of flowers, fruit, beautiful vessels and fabrics.

Her artworks focus on good food and fine drink and the good times sharing these with others. We welcome her to the gallery for her first solo exhibition with us. She has shown broadly around Australia and her artwork is highly regarded and sought after. We look forward to working with her going forward and hope to add to her growing collector base.


ARTIST STATEMENT

As Phoebe Stone began her process of making and musing in her Sydney studio she couldn’t help but think of each work, each vignette, as a sort of treasure. Her memory of being with and experiencing each moment, felt worthy of being squirrelled away in a special jewel box, where all prized things go. Yet for Stone, the act of recreating each moment and its feeling across the surface of her boards, each stroke of her oil pastel, was itself the act of storing the moment in a treasure box. It was pleasing to notice that this way of viewing the works seemed to illicit more jewel coloured tones across the works. Emeralds, rose hued quartz, citrine and sapphire blues all make an appearance in this body of work, etched out in Stone's signature textural mark making. 

BIO
 

Phoebe Stone is a self-taught, Sydney based artist working predominantly in oil pastels to explore the beauty and delight to be found in a well balanced coming together of composition, colour, pattern and texture.

Scenes of the domestic, whether food or the accoutrement of daily life, are drawn and drawn again in her signature urgency; impatient to see their pleasing forms and arrangements take shape.

Phoebe works intuitively and allows the unique process of making each piece to have as much relevance as the composition and colour stories themselves. Phoebe celebrates organic mark making; smudges, incidental colour mixing, imperfect lines and all.