Paul Stone studio visit

Last weekend the revolving gallery team went to visit Paul Stone in his studio just outside Sheffield. We initially had agreed that we should make studio visits to all of the artists that we feature in our exhibitions. There were many reasons why we thought this would be useful. Firstly we just want to meet the artists in person. We also thought that visiting their studios would give us a further insight into their work.

From our first studio visit it seems that our commitment to meeting the artists in their studio was a good idea. We talked with Paul in great depth about the kind of processes he goes through to produce his art. Also we learned a great deal about his passions and artistic influences. I was particularly interested to hear about the importance of light and reflection in his works and got to compare quite a range of his painting with drawings that he has done and found exactly the same trade mark attention to detail in light and reflection that can be found in his paintings
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I had previously only viewed Paul Stone's work on the internet and I must say that when his works are viewed in person they really come alive. It's difficult to explain, at least for me anyway, but there is definitely an added dimension that you get viewing his paintings in person. Having said this I really liked them viewed on a website even before I got to see them in person. I now definitely want to purchase some of his works for myself in the future.

I really hope anyone who hasn't yet viewed his work will be able to come and view his paintings on display at our exhibition on 12/12/09 at York St Johns University.


Tarot