Biography of Artist: Christopher 

Biography

Christopher Stone, founder of Lost Artist Studio Ibiza, is a British sculptor, painter and designer whose career spans more than five decades. He trained at Hornsey College of Art and Central Saint Martins in London before spending 18 years working alongside the internationally acclaimed sculptor Barry Flanagan, contributing to the production of major works that now form part of the international contemporary art landscape.

Working across corten steel, bronze and fibreglass sculpture, together with painting on paper and canvas, Stone has developed a distinctive visual language combining industrial form, humour, colour and instinctive composition. His work ranges from large-scale public sculpture to intimate works on paper and is held in private collections throughout Europe and beyond.

Christopher Stone has exhibited in every edition of the Art + Soul International Art and Sculpture Exhibition in Ireland since the exhibition began. In 2026, the exhibition moved to the prestigious five-star Mount Juliet Estate in County Kilkenny as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival, where more than 100 life-size outdoor sculptures are displayed throughout the estate's 500 acres of gardens and parkland. The historic Manor House hosts an outstanding collection of contemporary artworks by artists including Andy Warhol, Banksy, Damien Hirst, Bridget Riley and Tracey Emin, alongside exceptional contemporary Irish and international artists.

Stone is represented by Gormleys Fine Art in Ireland and Olas Gallery in Ibiza. While his career has largely unfolded outside the mainstream spotlight, his work has earned the respect of collectors, galleries and fellow artists through decades of continuous practice.

Based in Ibiza, Christopher Stone continues to work daily from his studio, creating sculpture, paintings and new ideas with the same curiosity, craftsmanship and instinct that have guided his work for more than fifty years.

Artist's Statement

An artist and maker.

Christopher Stone works with paint, plaster, steel and bronze in much the same way some people work with words.

His sculptures and paintings have found homes in collections across Europe and beyond. Most were created in Ibiza, although many began life years earlier as sketches, ideas or passing thoughts waiting for the right moment to become real.

For more than fifty years he has simply turned up and worked. Not chasing perfection or fashion, but allowing materials to reveal what they want to become. Some pieces arrive quickly, almost as though they were already there. Others resist, fall apart, are rebuilt and eventually find their own voice.

There is often something familiar in the finished work. Even when imagined, it carries the feeling of a memory half remembered.

Colour, texture, humour and the quiet beauty of ordinary things run through everything he creates.

There is no real separation between thinking and making. One feeds the other.

Christopher Stone is not trying to explain the world.

He is simply paying close enough attention to leave a mark.