Kady P. Stone

About the artist:

 

“I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.”

 Margaret Atwood

 

For as long as I can remember, I've been drawn to the freedom of art...the way it opens up both the artist and the viewer, most often in ways words can't describe. Drawing was my first love, one of the greatest gifts my father passed on to me before he passed away. Then I fell in love with words, both words of others and words of my own, and began to think I was meant to be a writer and not an artist--forgetting I could be both.

 

When I spent some time away from my artist-self, I suddenly felt the need to buy a large canvas and some paint, even though I had often hated painting before and had no idea what I would paint. I eventually found an unfinished drawing from high school in an old sketchbook that stirred some ideas, and a few weeks later I had the first painting I could say I was proud to call my own. Ever since I've been hooked. 

 

Now I see that the pencil, the pen, and the paintbrush are all equal parts of who I am and what I am here for. I use these three tools to help me express the connections I see between nature, environments, places, people, and spirituality. I only hope that those who view my art will open themselves up to this network of themes and ideas, and feel free enough to create new connections of their own. 

 

 Kady P. Stone