Bob Stone
161 Grove Lane SE5 8BG
Opening times: 26th & 27th June, 11AM–6PM. Any other time by appointment only. Contact: 0207274 4859 or 07910637177 to book.
Exhibiting works concerning landscape and the body, phenomenologically experienced, conceived just before the first lockdown up to the present. They explore felt apprehensions of suspended states of being, of interorisation , wherein the experience of the pandemic is not forced but rather has more of a subtle recognition , a pervasive influence into my ongoing concerns.
Artist Bio
Bob Stone is a painter who lives and works in Camberwell, South East London. He has maintained studios in London for over thirty-eight years and has recently moved to the Art Hub Studios, Woolwich.
Visit Website ⟶
Artist Statement
His paintings are strongly affected by the landscapes of London and the Languedoc region of SW France. The motivating force behind his work is a desire to capture the specific response to a place or person, to somehow make a corresponding sense of inhabiting the painting as you inhabit a landscape. He is not presenting a duplicate view but rather a record of felt experience that is responsive to immediacy, form and colour.
Bob Stone studied Fine Art painting at Brighton College of followed by an MA at Chelsea College of Art, graduating 1981. He has maintained an active painting profile, exhibiting nationally and abroad. He is currently represented by the Lovely Gallery, London. He has followed a career lecturing in higher education alongside his painting. Notably, he has taught at the University of Brighton, Chelsea College of Art (UAL), Canterbury School of Art (KIAD), and The University of Hull and was a Senior Painting Lecturer and MA Fine Art Programme Director at Canterbury Christ Church University from 1998-2016.
Education & Publications
1979 BA Hons 1st class (Painting), The University of Brighton
1981 MA Fine Art (Painting) Chelsea College of Art
Harold and Barbara Related. Catalogue: ISBN 078-1-8999253-78-4,
Bright Trees, Bare. Julian Bell
Traces and In Midst of Other Woe. Michael Paraskos 2010
A Company Beyond Time, Professor Mike Tucker, 1998
Back to Basics. Christina Koning, the Times, April, 1996
Julian Bell. Modern Painters Vol 9, April, 1996
Tree: Lockdown Exhibition
It was only whilst painting the extraordinary convoluted and upside-down London plane tree in St Giles’ graveyard that I was reminded of Titian’s marvelously visceral, late masterpiece - ‘The Flaying of Marsyas’. I saw it nearly forty years ago at an exhibition at the Royal Academy. Intuition and memory work as connections, memory has been strangely fluid in the time of Covid.
Likewise, the little lake at Belair Park, with the overhanging chestnut tree has resonances for me. The peculiarly dark, reflective waters are like a black mirror inverting the world. I think of Cezanne’s painting of Lake Annecy in the Courtauld Collection and that our world has been turned upside down.
