By Phoebe Stone
2025
oil pastel on board
51x41cm unframed
$2,000
ARTIST STATEMENT
"Vessels are both containers of beauty, filled with floral arrangements - casually picked from a kerbside or artfully arranged just so, sometimes taking a back seat to what's within, yet often also objects of great beauty in and of themselves. Simple yet beautifully curved forms, designed to fit effortlessly with a palm wrapped around a handle or the body of the pitcher. This series of three artworks is an ode to the vessel."
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.
