Paul Stone grew up on the Suffolk coast and began painting while completing his first degree in Art History in 1997. Since then he has painted alongside his many teaching jobs, including Painting Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. After completing his Masters in Fine Art in 2007, Paul has focused his practice on traditional still life compositions, albeit with a fresh contemporary look.

Now enjoying a growing reputation in this genre, with addition commissions in portraiture, Paul recently won several awards, including The Thoresby Gallery Award twice, as well as being invited to exhibit at The Mall Galleries in London and the Affordable Air Fair in Battersea. Currently he works full-time from his Stocksbridge studio near Sheffield.

Still life painting has a rich history, its repertoire altering as the genre has evolved. Rhopography is an old term derived from Greek for the depiction of apparently trivial objects and small wares, as opposed to megalography, the study of heroic subjects. By choosing small objects for close attention still life artists elevate their subjects and give them new significance. Paul Stone once worked as a manager of a fruit and vegetable shop and jokes that perhaps that is why he now likes including them in his still life paintings.

Paul Stone describes this process: “At the core of my paintings is the search for a precision of focus on the formal properties of mundane objects that have an everyday, unremarkable presence in our lives. As the majority of the inanimate objects are gathered from local charity shops, they also record a previous unknown transience moment when they are suddenly cast out for whatever reason. This results in a familiar and nostalgic content, and for me a more intimate relationship with their representation.

My studio is now littered with hundreds of these objects, all vying for attention within a composition often created by chance: a small shift to the side, a slight change in light, and suddenly a discarded low object has newly discovered strengths.”

“Originally my work had a very traditional approach to the process of creating artworks. Although this is still present, as the paintings (and thereby my practice as whole) have developed and matured, my previous research in History Of Art has over time organically breathed a fresh perspective into the artworks”.

Artist Paul Stone is one of a growing number of artists whose modern art works feature at Red Rag Gallery in Bath. Modern art work from Paul Stone is regularly exhibited at the Bath art gallery which also offers an extensive choice of modern art, contemporary sculptures and collectible art prints from other present day artists.

Paul Stone has had many solo and mixed shows with many leading Galleries and has won numerous awards. In addition to Red Rag Modern Art Gallery Paul Stone has exhibited at other leading British Art Galleries. Each painting at Red Rag is sourced from the Paul Stone artist studio and like all Red Rag British art and Modern art it can be shipped worldwide.

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Artist Paul STONE is one of a growing number of artists whose modern art works feature at Red Rag Gallery in Bath. Modern art work from Paul STONE is regularly exhibited at the Bath art gallery which also offers an extensive choice of modern art, contemporary sculptures and collectible art prints from other present day artists.

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