‘Dusky Dawn II’ – oil on canvas

Haiku (Indigo) 

I am indigo 
the mother of all colours
warmth in the darkness

Ursula is a full-time artist and works from her studio in Sussex, producing paintings and life drawings to exhibit and sell. Also available for publications and for reproduction.

“I endeavour to seek visual harmony, beauty and balance and a new perception of the inner and outer world through painting, drawing and poetry. I work with simple themes which are deeply worked through to find new images often abstract and sometimes finding familiar forms”

Ursula’s striking sought after life drawings are often drawn from moving models using a variety of implements including feathers, twigs, sticks and fingers. She uses Chinese inks and sometimes walnut ink as well as wax resist crayons and pastels. She captures the essence of the human form in its many expressions through simple gesture lines bringing with minimal strokes a strong statement which includes a title that enhances the image. 

Her oil paintings also lean toward minimalism and her theme at the moment is ‘The Elements’ latterly working with Air. Her paintings fall into the genre of abstract landscape or inner landscape deeply worked through using brushes and palette knives. 

artist statement

“Inspired by the beauty that surrounds me I paint the elements not as a literal representation but as they come through me as a metaphor. 

My style is painted both finely with brushes and roughly with palette knives to bring a balance that duality requires to achieve a whole and this technique creates an atmospheric presence that reflects in the title.

My work sensitively adheres to the gestures of the colour as I work with combinations that bring an emotional response from the viewer”.

“The unusual and captivating quality of Ursula Stone’s art is that the colour is worked in such a way as to give the observer the feeling of being inside an ‘alternative reality. You literally feel to be inside spaces that are created out of colour.”

“Emotional, intellectual, complex yet clearly expressed and a pleasure to contemplate and to study.  These are my main reasons for owning an artwork by Ursula Stone. I look forward to augmenting my collection with further works.”

I am represented by: 

The Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, London

A selection of work is for sale via their website – click here

I will also be represented by Nicholas Bowlby at the Affordable Art Fair