Phoebe
Stone
ARTIST WORKING ON CAMMERAYGAL LAND, SYDNEY.
ABOUT PHOEBEPhoebe 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 on the paper.
Her current works, whilst an exercise in pleasing compositions and colour stories, are also pieces created to capture and revel in memories of travel, meals shared and to savour particular emotional responses embedded in objects that are scattered throughout her home. .
NOW ONSo Long, Summer | Now showing at Michael Reid Southern Highlands 5—26 Mar 2025
In the six oil pastel works that make up ‘So Long, Summer’, Sydney/Cammeraygal artist Phoebe Stone bids farewell to this enchanting season by depicting a late lunch at the dining table. Envision warm golden light, shareable dishes, clusters of flowers in vintage earthenware, and linen tablecloths draping over weathered wooden tops.
Using her distinctive linear dashes and curlicue lines, Stone leverages the immediacy and vigour of the oil stick. The joy and energy of being among friends finds its equivalent in this medium.
But if the works in ‘So Long, Summer’ have the air of being completed in a single, unbridled burst of creative energy – it is only because the artist has so skilfully disguised the careful analysis and control behind them. She describes “the beauty and delight to be found in a well balanced coming together of composition, colour, pattern and texture” something which takes time and calibrated focus.
To view all six works please visit the Michael Reid Southern Highlands website.
COMING SOONGroup shows with both Boom Gallery, Geelong, and Velvet Lobster, Sydney.
Solo show with Boom Gallery in June.
PAST SHOWSMichael Reid Northern Beaches - Mini Release, June 2021 // Michael Reid Northern Beaches - Birthday Show, November 2021 // Michael Reid Northern Beaches - Mini Release, December 2021 // Purple Noon Gallery - Group Show “Red Fish, Blue Fish”, Dec 2021 // Gallery Raye - Group Show “Balmy” March 2022 // HAKE - Group Show “Company We Keep”, March 2022 // Lane Cove 57th Annual Art Award & Show, September 2022 // Gallery Raye - Solo Show “Sea Call” , October 2022 // Michael Reid Northern Beaches - Summer Salon, December 2021. // Sketch Co Gallery - Group Show “High Tide”, 30th March - 19th April 2023, Solo Show “At The Table” May 18th - June 10th Surry Hills, Sydney // Gallery Raye - Group Show “Pause Pause” 14th - 21st July 2023, Noosaville, QLD // HAKE - Solo Show September 15th Opening - October 2nd, Dee Why, Sydney. // Michael Reid Southern Highlands 7th September - 8th October // The Design Files Collect Group Show 2nd - 19th October
PAST SHOWSI take on a small number of commissions each year. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss booking one.
