PAUL STONE | Long Beans on White
Oil on Canvasboard
29 x 61 cms / 11 ½ x 24 inches
Signed Stone (lower right)
Paul Stone’s Long Beans on White transforms the humble into the sublime. A tangle of verdant beans stretches across a crisp white cloth, contrasted by a rustic ceramic cup. With meticulous realism and a modern eye for balance, Stone elevates this simple arrangement into a meditation on form, shadow and stillness. A striking example of contemporary still life, rich in texture and quiet tension.
“At the core of my paintings is the search for a precision of focus on the formal properties of objects that have an everyday, almost unremarkable presence in our lives. This results in a familiar and nostalgic content, and for me a more intimate relationship with their representation.
While the work displays a high sense of realism, particularly in reproduction, it is important to me that the works are still essentially a personal interpretation of form and composition, and therefore not lose that sense of being a painting. The excitement of being an artist for me lies both in the process of physically using paint to transform, and a sense of achievement in completing the work”.
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