Simon Stone Collected works

2013 large paperback in good condition. R60 postage in SA. Soft cover in good condition - Internally clean and tight.

Over a prolific and consistent career, Simon Stone has built an impressive reputation as a painter. Best described as a lyrical and narrative Neo-Expressionist, this exhibition identifies Stone as unique amongst other South African painters.

Stone is renowned for his various stylistic and thematic approaches, such as natural realism and symbolic collage. Stone juxtaposes different genres (portraiture, landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes, nudes, still-lifes and domestic interiors) in paintings constructed around multiple images that provide vivid and poetic accounts of his own personal journey. Flashbacks to the troubled history of South Africa are interspersed with evocations of fabled works of art, legendary cities, beautiful women, memories of the Cape, Johannesburg, as well as small towns, lonely highways and byways of his beloved Karoo. He creates a semi-Surrealist, alternative world that is beautifully painted and layered with complex meaning, recurring motifs, personal metaphysics and a strange sense of the mundane. Both detailed and expressive, he revels in an exploration of colour, form, composition as well as mood and atmosphere.

Stone graduated from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town in 1976 and later continued his education in Italy. He was an important influence on, and part of a generation of painters during the halcyon era of South African art in the eighties and early nineties. Since 1978, he has exhibited widely, both locally and abroad.