Kay Stoner

Languages: English, German

Art Categories: painting, drawing, oil pastel, acrylic, watercolor, Canvas, paper, mixed media, cardboard, wood, colored pencil, graphite, abstract, expressionist

Haves: A room full of art in a variety of sizes and media -- paintings & drawings on paper and canvas

Wants: buyers for my artwork, sponsors for my large-format abstract expressionist creations, clients who commission my work

Brief description: I am a mixed media artist and writer who works on paper and large canvas.

Location: boston, Ma

Contact email: kaystoner@yahoo.com

Interests: geometry, color, symbolism, metaphor, mythology, neuroscience, biophysics, quantum physics, feng shui, interior design, art therapy, writing, POETRY, European history, social networking

Skills: feng shui, painting, drawing, creating LARGE works, color and geometric analysis

Website: http://www.kaystoner.com

Mobile phone: 617-816-1382

Telephone: 617-816-1382

About

I am a mixed media artist and writer who has been creating abstract expressionist art for over 20 years. I have been working in solitude for most of that time, and I only started showing other people my work in the past 2 years. I'm a firm believer that art is created first in the cauldron of human experience, and only when it is completed there, should it find expression through the media we use. Whether we are using paint or pastels, clay or colored pencils, I believe the true measure of our work is not our facility with our chosen media, but our familiarity with our own souls.

That being said, I consider myself an artist first and a painter second. My life is my art, and I use whatever media seems apropos to express what I am experiencing at the moment. I work with acrylics, oil pastels, watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, marker, crayon, graphite... on paper, cardboard, canvas, canvasboard, and wood.

I have invested a great deal of my life in mindful meditation -- seeing what the true essence of a moment is. I have also studied the approach of artistic masters who devote countless hours not to painting or drawing their subjects, but to experiencing them, getting to know their essence, and reaching a place of innate, intimate understanding... before they ever start work.

Along the way, I have held a large number of jobs -- from working the graveyard shift at a styrofoam cup factory, to tutoring art history, to doing temporary legal secretarial work at some of Philadelphia's largest law firms, to supervising word processors, to building websites. I am currently engaged in the financial services industry, implementing emerging technologies at the enterprise level.

As far as my artwork goes, I am a firm believer in the ability of art to inspire and motivate... to transform the energies of human-inhabited spaces. I also believe that, in this day of exponentially increasing information, art embodies an essential way of communicating informational richness to the broadest audience possible. In "encoding" information through the use of color, shape, and light, an artist can both enlighten and unify the viewers in ways that connect the many seemingly disjointed aspects of our modern world. At no other time in history has art been so important -- particularly corporate art and art in public places. We all crave unity, we all crave connection. Art lets us do it in both highly sophisticated and lightning-fast ways. Art truly is the "written language" of our emerging world.

My art has been the one constant in my life, through the years, and given the enthusiastic responses I've received from folks who have seen my work, it's now time to make it available to the rest of the world. I've loved what I've created, and I've loved creating it. Now it's time for the babies to leap from the nest.