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Christopher Stone
Ibiza, Spain.
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"Christopher Stone is considered one of the worlds formost stone carvers in the direct style"

Christopher Stone

I began my working life in London's East end as an apprentice cabinet maker to Donald Lear.
After receiving my City & Guilds papers I went to work for the artist designer Ralph Hampton in Sherbourne, Dorset. Returning to London I was engaged to work as a fine art restorer for the De Siedner gallery in Whitmore steet W.1.
I between times I undertook, and completed "The Knowledge of London", and drove a black cab there for 10 years to maintain myself as an artist. I later moved to Spain to participate as an artist designer in the world Expo 92 in Seville, working on both the British & Spanish pavilions. Upon my arrival in Ibiza I met and collaborated with the sculptor Barry Flanagan who mentored me artistically until his death in 2009. My work has been shown in many European cities, and the USA in both joint and solo exhibitions.

Public collections include.
The Fifteen restaurant/foundation, London.
The Museé de Pienture, France.
The sculptors orchard, Bressuire castle, Bressuire, France
The City cultural centre, Fuengirola, Spain.
Brakenstown House, Dublin, Eire.
Enigma House, Cape town, SA.
Wessum, Amsterdam, Holland.

A new approach to making carved sculpture introduced by Brancusi from about 1906. Before that carved sculpture had always been based on a carefully worked out preliminary model. Often it was then actually carved by craftsmen employed by the artist. The marble sculptures of Rodin were made in this way. In direct carving there is no model and the finalform evolves through the process of carving. An important aspect of direct carving was the doctrine of truth to materials (see also Impasto). This meant that the artist consciously respected the nature of the material, working it to bring out its particular properties and beauty of colour and surface. Direct carvers used a wide variety of types of marble, stone and wood. They kept to simple forms which respected the original block or tree trunk. Surfaces were kept uncluttered by detail in order to expose the material itself, and were often carefully polished to enhance the colour and markings. The results were often highlyabstract. In introducing direct carving Brancusi brought about a revolution in the tradition of carved sculpture. After Brancusi, notable direct carvers were Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska,Hepworth and Moore.

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