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December 23, 2010 by  
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Christopher Stone has been a successful artist for a considerable time, his very early years were spent as an apprentice to a cabinet makerin London’s East end, “Working for this man was very informative, I learnt a great deal, however he was an ogre, a bad tempered old brute who learned his own trade in the army as a Royal Engineer, I believe he considered me as a grunt, and himself as the sergeant major, he used to tell me to ”put my shoulders back, and swing my arm as we walked along”, and on Friday’s he would throw my rather meagre wage packet at me telling me that “I did’nt deserve it.”.
During the late seventies Christopher designed and made several entrance doors for a construction project at London’s prestigious Camden passage, some of which can be seen today. He also built some of the display counters and windows for the Chemist “John Bell and Croyden” in Wigmore street London from Jamaican Mahogany, works from this time were displayed in Paris and Le Mans, France.

After a Hiatus teaching young criminal offenders carpentry skills arranged by Hackney borough council, which eventually closed due to lack of funding, he went on to study with some established artists in Sherbourne Dorset,working with furniture designer Ralph Hampton, When he felt that his studies were complete Christopher tried his hand as a gallerist, starting in the small west country village of Tisbury, and moving on to Salisbury in Wiltshire, during these years Christopher had maintained a steady flow of  artistic creativity, exhibiting in Europe and the USA.
Two galleries have recently told of a new interest early pieces, collectors are curious, and a momentum is being created, here lies the problem, almost all of Christopher work produced in the period 1975 until 1990 was unsigned, or unrecorded, very few exhibition catalogues remain, although the artist assures us that he personally is compiling a “List of early works”. One stone carving from his own private collection and from this period has been given by him to “The musee de pienture” in Sant Fragou, France, the piece entitled “Innocence” will be in the museums permanent collection, and can be seen there from February 2011.

Since 1990 Christopher has lived and worked in Spain, and for 17 years on Ibiza where he collaborated with the Welsh sculptor Barry Flanagan, whom he considered he’s Mentor.

Christopher has long list of exhibitions behind him, in England, France, Ireland, Germany, Holland, and the USA, and several more planned for 2011.

This coming Easter at the Marbella casino, Marbella Spain Stephen Howes fine art are holding a fabulous joint exhibition with a varied selection of superb artist’s including several of Christopher’s recent sculptures in marble, and some earlier pieces, many of the new painted works will also be exhibited.

Christopher is considered one of the foremost stone carvers in the “Direct style” which was innovated by the French sculptor Henri Gaudier amongst others, but now it seems he has yet again changed direction. Christopher has in 2010 laid down the chisels and picked up his brushes, after blowing off the cobwebs he is painting again with a production rate that Picasso would admire, prolific to say the least.

Several of these new works are developed using found objects such as sections of antique telegraph poles, this particular collection is entitled by the artist as “My paranoia in the round”. These item’s are fresh, well composed, and unique to this artist’s style.

Many medium sized canvases have also been produced in an abstract / figurative style using bright colors straight from the tube ” I have no time to worry about blending and mixing, I want to get my ideas out before they vanish or meld into each other, I use the same spontaneity that I use in my carving and other sculptures, any colors that mixed are mixed on the support”.

When asked if this artistic direction will be continued for some time, we were told ” I dont know what I will do tomorrow, when I wake up I will go either to the studio where I carve, or I will stay home and paint, I wish I knew myself where I shall be, or what I shall be doing, all I can say is that I shall create something, its my job to create, its what I do”. I work alone, If its carving I carve it, whatever I do is 100% my own, no one else is involved in anything I do, absolutely, so I am my own master, it makes it easier, I do what I do, when I do it, and I do it alone”.

Stephen Howes fine art based in Marbella Spain are the first gallery to represent this  artist’s new direction in Europe.

If you are looking for any of Christopher’s early work you must put on your detectives hat, an artist so diverse there is hardly a medium or support he has not used, furniture included.

Christopher is considered a sociable person, and any questions or doubts over works are happily answered through any one of his representing galleries, or from the artist himself.

www.stephenhowes.es Artist’s agent and representative, Spain

www.ladyaudreysgallery.com Representing gallery USA

www.forgegallerywalberton.co.uk Representing gallery UK

www.sculptormine.com Artists own website

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Venus

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Adam & Eve

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