Douglas Stone Canadian, 1951

Douglas Stone was born in Simcoe, Ontario and studied fine art at the University of Guelph in the 1970s. He later attended the Triangle Artists Workshop in Pine Plains, NY. Stone has shown internationally in Toronto, New York, and Paris, and has completed commissions for the University of Guelph and David Cronenberg, among others.

In the mid-1980s Stone began to create enigmatic, minimal paintings that resembled classroom chalkboards. Christopher Hume desceribed how "Stone’s is as quiet as an exhibition comes... but attempts to engage the viewer in a very intimate manner. This is a show that whispers, but eloquently" (via).

A review of Stone's work in Artpost described how "we find lots of lines doing their thing, colors surfacing at random, a coming and going of shape[s] and a reveling in total chaos, except that a definite border surrounds the entire work.  There is a beautiful range of movement and line quality... The aggressive laying down of lines is tempered by the openness of the white space and the frolicsomeness of the content. It is altogether playful and confusing, like magic (via).