Richard Stone

I have been working as an artist and photographer since the 1970s. My early training was at The School of the Chicago Art Institute. In those days, I began exploring the layering of materials, most often oil pastels, on paper and using a range of tools to scrape away later layers to reveal
earlier marks and compositions, many of which were abstract figurative. The beauty and variability of texture have continued to play a role in my painting and photography to this day.

For the past ten years, I have been exploring the infinite varieties of texture and pattern represented in tree bark and lichen revealed through macro photography. More recently I have been experimenting with the marriage of photography with painterly compositions, once again layering images digitally one upon another, then partially erasing later layers to reveal either a design or photographic image that had been previously hidden. These multi-media compositions along with my photographic images of tree bark are now in a number of private collections, as are many of my earlier works on paper produced in the 80s and 90s.

I am currently exploring painting on a photograph of a singular Tulip Poplar leaf in what I’m calling The 100 Leaves Project. I am maintai...

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Vanderbilt University

Currently in a show entitled New Beginnings, sponsored by the Women's Caucus for Art, at Georgia State University, Clarkston Campus, Atlanta