Life

life 
like a mirror
echoes your destiny
a true gift of reflection 
to cherish in your living heart

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 reproduction.

“I just adore your work. I am living near Oban on the west coast of Scotland, and the skies, lochs and land become a completely different element, one which doesn’t have a name! 

I think of your work and its apparent simpleness and then the joy of discovering that it is so much more than how it initially appears, and then the vista opens and with it, adventure. I so appreciate, as I guess do many many others, your work …”

Ursula has lived beside the Ashdown Forest since 1984. 

Her past life has always been immersed in ‘art’ having been born into a family full of artists. Her mother painted portraits and landscapes as did both her grandparents and her great grandfather was the renowned painter Ludwig Fahrenkrog. 

From this rich history she has continued the tradition especially over the past thirty years building up her portfolio and exhibiting locally, in London and internationally. She was chosen to exhibit with the Society of Women Artists at The Mall Galleries and she regularly shows with The Nicholas Bowlby Gallery at the Affordable Art Fairs in Battersea and Hampstead. She was also represented by The Ashdown Gallery in Forest Row, however this gallery recently closed. Ursula was also part of the artists’ collective The Chalk Gallery in Lewes. 

She trained at Belfast College of Art, Camberwell School of Art, London, and finally to be an art therapist at Tobias School of Art. 

She paints in oils 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. Her sought after life drawings are drawn with Chinese ink using sticks feathers and fingers. 

Her other life has been bringing up four children and prior to that, living with and working for various celebrities including John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Robin Gibb, Van Morrison and Jimi Hendrix.

Artwork can be licensed for use in publications, book covers and corporate and hospitality environments – please email studio@ursulastone.com

Ursula Stone is represented by The Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, London.

“Ursula’s gift is beyond artistry.  She uses skill and intuition, and is one of the rare artists to bring through the Muse of visual poetry into her works.  Her portraiture is accurate, her use of colour astounding, and she gives expression to her figure drawing with few strokes and flowing one-line techniques. Her gift is genetic, passed through generations of well-renowned artists.  I possess several of her works, one of which is portrait of my son. I look forward to seeing all her new endeavours.
 

Dwina Gibb (author and artist, widow of Robin Gibb and mother of Robin-John Gibb) 

“Ursula Stone’s paintings are layered in mystery. She is such a master of using colour in it’s depths to build imaginative landscapes that allow the viewer to enter into a world of visual possibilities. The shapes arise out of the colour and this process is enhanced by the fact that she is also an accomplished draughtsman. Though nothing in her canvases are pre-drawn and thus ‘trapped’. It has been a wonderful journey to experience Ursula‘s growing artistic voyages into the power of colour, and its need to be healed in our mineralised culture.”

Wendy Cook (Food writer and former wife of Satirist Peter Cook)

“I love the colours and vibrancy and inner strength of Ursula’s paintings. The ones I have on my walls have brought a very special feeling and inspiration into the room.  I find my imagination is really stimulated by the possibilities that are opened up by her unique style.”   

Araminta Samways (collector)