About Me

I’m fired by the challenges of working from life. This informs all my art. Often, this takes an allegorical form around a theme. Recurring ideas centre on how women are portrayed in history, literature, folklore and myth.

I gained a degree in Fine Art at Loughborough and a post-graduate Art Teacher’s Certificate at Goldsmiths between 1976 – 1980, and have continued to make art and teach ever since. I live in Heath and Reach, Bedfordshire, and have a studio in the beautiful ancient house at Westbury Arts Centre, Milton Keynes. I am part of The Artist Collective @ Westbury.

Recent exhibitions include:

“Portraits” solo at the Eagle Gallery, Bedford, March 2019,

MK Open at Westbury Arts Centre in July 2019.

Visual Images Group: Bucks Art Weeks online, June 2020.

Visual Images Group: Bucks Art Weeks Open Studios June 2021.

“True Colours” solo exhibition the Legge Gallery, Westbury Arts Centre November 2021.

Visual Images Group: Bucks art Weeks Open Studios June 2022.

“Our Colours”, joint exhibition with Abstract Artist Frances Fox, Barn Gallery, Westbury Arts Centre, September 2022.

Visual Images Group: Bucks Art Weeks Event, AC@W group exhibition and Open Studios at Westbury, June 2023.

Artful Connections 2, group exhibition in The Barn, Westbury Arts Centre, September 2023.

For updates on forthcoming exhibitions please follow my blog (see menu above) or Facebook @joannastone.artist or Instagram @joannaestone

Unless otherwise stated, all the artwork you will see on this site is © Joanna Stone. Please do not use/ publish these pictures without my permission.