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Birthplace: Manchester
Location: Eden Valley, Cumbria
Art Medium: Lithographs
Education:

  • 1967 – 71 Fine Art, St Martin’s School of Art, London

Awards:

  • Gulbenkian Foundation Award

Since graduating from London’s St. Martin’s School of Art in 1971, Alan Stones has worked full-time as an artist - making paintings, drawings and original prints (lithographs).

In 1984 Alan won a Gulbenkian Foundation Award to experiment in printmaking. It was the beginning of a prolific creation of lithographs. His initial subject was hill farming in the Northern Pennines.  Then in the mid 1990’s, after a three month residency on the Falkland Islands, the imagery of his lithographs became much more minimal. 

Retreat
Retreat
£160.00
Ravens VIII
Ravens VIII
£365.00

Alan Stones’ work is invariably ‘to do’ with people. When depicting other subjects these are usually aspects of nature – which stand as metaphors for human activities.

Exhibitions:

  • Vallum Gallery (Cumbria Institute of the Arts) 2018.

  • The Beacon, Whitehaven, 2019.

  • Upfront Gallery 2017: 'Clearing' - a large solo exhibition.

  • 2017-18 New Light Art Prize Exhibition (Bowes Museum County Durham, Huddersfield Art Gallery and Tullie House, Carlisle).

Observer
Observer
£310.00

Alan is a Patron of Printfest.

Work represented by NLG:

Printmaking: Alan Stones

www.alanstones.co.uk   Twitter: @AlanStonesArt