Welcome to the Gallery of Jack Stone.

Every painting diplayed here is an original piece by Jack Stone.

Abstracts
Expressionist
Landscapes
Cityscapes
“Will ‘A.I.’ absorb and consequently nullify the expressive power of painting? Probably. But that’s all the more reason to paint like hell. If you’re surfing, you belong on the breaking edge. The wave will follow.
Otherwise, you’re just swimming. Abandon consequences. Human expression will simply find new forms.”
— Jack Stone

Landscapes

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Landscapes 〰️

I love Piedmont North Carolina and Virginia landscape. Though it is rapidly changing under the strategems and necessities of commerce and population expansion, it still tells its history. There are still the old barns and sheds, the slow grazing cattle, the hills and valleys and rivers, the lush green grass of spring and summer, the spectacular colors of autumn forests. Time of day and time of year yield wonders to behold. We need to properly value this heritage, these traces of persistent hard labor and bargains with nature. It produces good, honest, sensible people.

  • Waiting

    17 × 12 | $260

  • Top of the Rise

    24 × 18 | $280

  • Three Generations

    24 × 20 | $320

  • Three Cedars

    13 × 9 | framed | $125

  • Their Domain

    36 × 24 | $400

  • Storm Brewing

    21 × 17 | $320

  • Stored Up

    24 × 36 | $420

  • Stocked

    24 × 18 | $350

  • Still Standing

    33 × 29 | $385

  • Small World

    35 × 30 | $430

  • Shotgun Shack

    20 × 16 | $320

  • Sawtooth Mountain Alpine #7

    16 × 22 | $320

    Way back in the late 80's, I joined with my sister, Judy, and her husband, Jim, on a backpack trip into Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains. We were daily surrounded by breathtaking scenery, and I tried to record at least some of it by camera. The trip made such a deep impression that I had to re-visit in paintings. This little series derives from that wonderful experience.

  • Sawtooth Mountain Alpine #6

    25 × 19 | $385

    Way back in the late 80's, I joined with my sister, Judy, and her husband, Jim, on a backpack trip into Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains. We were daily surrounded by breathtaking scenery, and I tried to record at least some of it by camera. The trip made such a deep impression that I had to re-visit in paintings. This little series derives from that wonderful experience.

  • Sawtooth Mountain Alpine #5

    20 × 17 | $320

    Way back in the late 80's, I joined with my sister, Judy, and her husband, Jim, on a backpack trip into Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains. We were daily surrounded by breathtaking scenery, and I tried to record at least some of it by camera. The trip made such a deep impression that I had to re-visit in paintings. This little series derives from that wonderful experience.

  • Sawtooth Mountain Alpine #4

    21 × 25 | $320

  • Sawtooth Mountain Alpine #3

    25 × 25 | $385

    Way back in the late 80's, I joined with my sister, Judy, and her husband, Jim, on a backpack trip into Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains. We were daily surrounded by breathtaking scenery, and I tried to record at least some of it by camera. The trip made such a deep impression that I had to re-visit in paintings. This little series derives from that wonderful experience.

  • Sawtooth Mountain Alpine #2

    21 × 17 | $320

    Way back in the late 80's, I joined with my sister, Judy, and her husband, Jim, on a backpack trip into Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains. We were daily surrounded by breathtaking scenery, and I tried to record at least some of it by camera. The trip made such a deep impression that I had to re-visit in paintings. This little series derives from that wonderful experience.

  • Sawtooth Mountain Alpine #1

    16 × 20 | $320

  • River Road Farm

    30 × 24 | $450

  • Riches

    20 × 17 | $285

  • Remnant

    32 × 29 | $420

  • Red Top

    20 × 16 | $285

  • Rainy Drive

    21 × 17 | $260

    Strictly a mood piece. I tried to inject a sense of cloying, enveloping sweet sadness at the necessity of closing a very important relationship, the full emotional impact of which was being slowly released in a long solo drive in the foothills. The late damp afternoon diffusion of light, the undeniable beauty of it all, the slow crush of sadness. I wish I could remember the music on the radio.

  • Pulling Up Breakfast

    20 × 16 | $265

  • Private Quarters

    24 × 18 | $360

  • Plein Aire

    10 × 8 | framed | $120

  • Losing Ground

    28 × 23 | $420

  • Lillies

    30 × 24 | $360

    I don't remember the exact location. My wife, Paula, and I used to drive all over western Carolina and Virginia, just marveling at the simple richness and beauty of the land and its occupants. She was unnerved by my sudden stops and reversals to catch a photo. I could never get enough. I have many more images from those days than are depicted on this site. I feel a pact with this blessed part of the country.

  • Late Spring

    36 × 28 | $420

  • Late Morning

    18 × 12 | $285

  • Late Afternoon

    20 × 16 | $265

  • Last Days

    20 × 16 | $350

    Not too far from where we live, there was still standing an old homestead that must have flourished in the 1930's or 40's. I used to run on the roads out there, and that place intrigued me. You could see that all the structures were built by hand, maybe only the family's hands. Several out-buildings and sheds, corrals, the main house (so tiny and elementary), and this particular barn. I studied this remnant inside and out, trying to imagine its former days, and paying my respects in this piece. All trace of the compound has since disappeared.

  • June

    30 × 20 | $295

  • Into the Farm

    36 × 24 | $360

  • House in the Valley

    20 × 16 | $280

  • Home and Sky

    13 × 21 | $360

    You wander in the Piedmont, in the foothills, in the mountains. And in the towns and cities. And you see that people everywhere want a home, some peace, some presence on the earth that fulfills them. It doesn't have to be big and fancy. Fairness of opportunity is really the key to the fulfillment of potential.

  • Hill Country

    30 × 20 | $360

  • Hibiscus

    30 × 24 | $420

  • Heading Home

    32 × 25 | $365

  • Good Morning

    30 × 24 | $325

  • Golden Weeds

    20 × 16 | $200

  • Fresh Greens

    30 × 24 | $385

  • Foothills Farm

    30 × 24 | $360

  • Field Day

    18 × 24 | $360

  • Eastern Shore

    18 × 15 | framed | $220

  • Deconstruction by Nature

    28 × 23 | $380

    A well-built house will inevitably yield to the same erosion that all nature experiences in time. I was struck by the skeletal exposure of this once fine abandoned home. Somehow a metaphor of how confidence, supposition, possibly even pretense all submit to nature's perpetual erosion.

  • Daybreak

    24 × 18 | $380

  • Cows and Copters

    20 × 14 | $250

  • Comin' Up

    21 × 17 | $250

  • Chase

    36 × 26 | $400

  • Cat Tails

    19 × 19 | framed | $250

  • Built to Last

    37 × 27 | $365

  • Boulders

    $480

  • Blue Ridge Shed

    24 × 18 | $250

  • Bend in the Road

    20 × 16 | $280

  • Barney

    24 × 18 | $285

  • August

    16 × 12 | $320

  • Attention

    sold

  • Autumn Hay

    sold

  • Colorado

    sold

  • Friends

    sold

  • Full Figured

    sold

  • Glory

    sold

  • Grayson Highlands

    sold

  • Memories

    sold

  • Mountain Creek

    sold

  • Relic

    sold

  • River's Edge

    sold

  • Solo

    sold

  • Tool Shed

    sold

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Abstracts

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Abstracts 〰️

Music is a form of blood. I had to choose, more or less, to either make music or paintings. Some people do both handily. I rely – intensely – on the blood of others for these transfusions. I don't understand the synergy between the visual and the auditory arts. But there's so much I don't understand - what about relationships? For me, abstract painting comes the closest to music. I want to do a lot more abstracts. They are exploratory and totally unpredictable. Like relationships.

  • Allowances

    24 x 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Attraction

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Considerations

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Containment

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Coupling

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Detachment

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Essence

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Extrusion

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Failure to Conceal

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Insistence

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Merge

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Red Dawn

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Rejection

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Severity

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Sleep

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Slice

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Sweep

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Uncoil

    24 × 24 | painted on board | $350

  • Thought

    48 × 48 | $880

  • Target Zone

    16 × 20 | $280

  • Talk Talk

    16 × 20 | $280

  • Split Second

    40 × 30 | $480

  • Sovereignty

    40 × 30 | $520

  • Screen Dream

    30 × 36 | $320

  • Restless Storage

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Resonance

    26 × 36 | $480

  • Pressure

    28 × 28 | $350

  • Precarity

    24 × 30 | $380

  • Passing Through

    40 × 30 × 2.5 | $850

  • Only Way Through

    30 × 24 | $480

  • Murky Motive

    16 × 20 | $280

  • Mobile

    30 × 24 | $420

  • Maneuvers

    32 × 32 | $480

  • Flowthrough

    30 × 24 | $350

  • Fire Trails

    16 × 20 | $280

  • Fault Line

    16 × 20 | $280

  • Expanding

    30 × 22 | $320

  • Enclosure

    38 × 28 | $350

  • Ceremony

    24 × 24 | $350

  • Blocked

    18 × 24 | $280

  • Conundrum

    30 × 24 | $560

  • Air Power

    34 × 21 | $550

  • Adjusting Approach

    30 × 24 | $350

  • Exhale

    sold

  • New Town

    sold

  • Progress

    sold

  • Tracings

    sold

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City Scapes

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City Scapes 〰️

In the 90's that I was a member of a downtown artist collaborative. Wandering around the city occasionally got me to thinking what it looked like from a height, instead of street level. I went to the tops of parking decks and shot photos of many angles and perspectives. These were the references for a series of “cityscapes” I painted. They emphasize the stark geometrics rather than the hustle and bustle of an urban center. Now and then a vehicle will present itself, but never a human form. These paintings pulled a linear quality into some of the later abstracts.

  • Vacant

    30 × 30 | $420

  • SUV

    24 × 24 | $380

  • Spiral Drive

    30 × 24 | $420

  • Spare Trees

    24 × 24 | 420

  • Spaces

    24 × 24 | $420

  • Small Biz

    32 × 28 | $485

  • Shadow Play

    24 × 24 | $360

  • Round and Square

    24 × 24 | $380

  • Roofs

    32 × 28 | $485

  • Looking West

    36 × 48 | $520

  • Long Shadow

    24 × 24 | $370

  • Deck

    24 × 24 | $375

  • Corner Store

    24 × 24 | $420

  • Convergence

    24 × 24 | $400

  • Canyon

    30 × 30 | $450

  • Blank Bank

    24 × 24 | $350

  • Angles

    30 × 40 | $420

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Expressionist

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Expressionist 〰️

For me, painting resulted organically from drawing. I drew cartoons and country scenes when I was a kid – with a distinct leaning towards the exaggerated. I went to a class at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and saw the Picassos, the Braques, and other grotesqueries on the high walls. They looked more ambitious than life itself, and settled into my subconscious like rocks in a river. Life was yet to deliver my own personal rocks.

Irony plays a big part in things great and small. Paradox is more than two doctors. Life expands in all directions continually. All points radiate out in all directions, filling all space with shimmering interpenetrating frequencies. Conversely, all points are the result of an infinitude of vibrational convergences. There was no beginning, and there will never be an end. And it all just gets better. Evil has its part – and must be subjugated – but the general teleology is aspiring.

Santa Claus thrives on novelty. Toys today will be relics tomorrow, but not lost. Repurposed, handed down, pulverized and left to drift in particles for the next million years. Paint, like everything, contains atoms of far distant past and future moments in time, positions in space. Paint can talk. It tells me what to do. It's not always right. It's a dialogue.

  • Arrival

    24 × 24 | oil on board | $350

  • Half Time

    30 × 24 | $350

  • Winning Hand

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Who Needs Enemies

    30 × 24 | $380

  • Wedding Party

    43 × 33 | $580

  • Warning

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Velocity

    18 × 24 | $285

  • Vacation

    30 × 24 | $285

  • Urban Underground

    30 × 24 | $350

  • Up Above It

    36 × 48 | $450

  • Unreported Incident

    30 × 24 | $475

  • Under the Bridge

    24 × 24 | $450

  • Troubled Landing

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Tired of the Future

    16 × 20 | $325

  • Three Tunnels

    30 × 24 | $350

  • Thawed Out

    $420

  • Sunset Observers

    30 × 24 | $325

  • Sunday by the Reactor

    48 × 36 | $420

  • Stray Shot

    $350

  • Strange Visitors

    36 × 25 | $550

  • Strange Planet

    $420

  • Storming the Castle

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Storied Land

    28 × 22 | $350

  • Still Life with Fish

    24 × 24 | $480

    Traditionally, painters honed their basic skills of replication by studying random objects on a table. Especially during the long indoor gray winters of the midlands, bottles, furs, fruits and dinnerware would be subjects. This “still life” disclosed itself from the objects of my imagination... objects common to America.

  • Soul Cycle

    30 × 40 | $480

  • Sovereignty

    40 × 30 | $480

  • Sompn Ain't Right

    30 × 24 | $350

  • Slipping Through Town

    $420

  • Shock Theater

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Shock of the New

    $420

    Undoubtedly, the several comings of Trump over the last ten or so years, have each felt frontal, ambiguously disruptive, loaded with unknowns. This was painted in early 2016 when I sensed the depth of unease that many Americans felt.

  • Seen It All

    30 × 40 | $480

  • See for Yourself

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Scouts

    24 × 30 | $420

  • Schism

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Rural Scene

    30 × 24 | $380

  • Roof Ritual

    30 × 24 | $420

  • River Spirit

    36 × 48 | $500

  • Rendezvous

    30 × 24 | $380

    This is a painting that comes from a strain I might call “implicit narrative”, a segment from a story about which there is no explanatory context. It puts together flying figures, “ufo's”, the hinterland beyond the metro, and an imminent meeting of unfamiliar players.

  • Recollection

    30 × 24 | $350

  • Rabbit Hole Gang

    24 × 30 | $350

    Another of the “implicit narrative” explorations. We pick up catchphrases salted into our conversations by news and entertainment media: “at the end of the day”... “top of mind”...”down the rabbit hole”, etc. What if there was a real rabbit hole, inhabited by gangster bunnies running a covert front operation as computer monitor sales directed by extraterrestrials? Of course.

  • Prophesy Soup

    30 × 24 | $350

  • Premonition

    48 × 36 | $580

  • Plinking in the Park

    30 × 24 | $320

    Gratuitous violence visits a place of peace and recreational renewal. 

    Americana.

  • Please Step Over

    30 × 20 | $320

  • Pit Falls

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Phoenix Burning

    30 × 40 | $330

  • Perpetual Conflict

    30 × 40 | $420

  • Passion Eviscerated

    30 × 24 | $350

  • Passing Through

    40 × 30 × 2.5| $850

  • Over the Moon

    24 × 40 | $380

  • Optics

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Off the Wall

    22 × 28 | $350

  • Occupation

    40 × 30 | $625

  • Observers

    36 × 48 | $460

  • Nothing to See Here

    30 × 24 | $300

  • Night Passage

    30 × 24 | $350

  • News Hour

    24 × 24 | $450

  • Moon Dance

    30 × 48 | $385

  • Mission

    28 × 22 | $280

  • Migration

    38 × 30 | $400

  • Memorial Day

    30 × 24 | $320

  • Lost Souls

    30 × 28 | $420

  • Loss

    22 × 28 | $380

  • Looking Through

    29 × 23 | $385

  • Locked Myself Out

    30 × 40 | $480

  • Lobbyists

    36 × 40 | $450

  • Liminal Land

    40 × 60 | $850

  • Life Cycle Machine

    40 × 30 | $480

  • Lens

    24 × 30 | $325

  • Landing

    48 × 20 | triptych | $785

  • Kashmir

    24 × 24 | $380

  • It's All Good

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Isolation

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Invitation

    30 × 24 | $370

  • Invasion

    24 × 30 | $375

  • Intruder

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Interdimensional

    30 × 24 | $380

  • Infatuation

    60 × 36 | $600

  • Inescapable

    36 × 36 | $460

  • Incident on Fifth Ave

    30 × 24 | $350

    "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"

  • Hounds of Heaven

    30 × 25 | $350

  • Holding Peace

    24 × 30 | $320

  • Hitch Hiker

    24 × 30 | $320

  • Higher Self

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Hegemon

    23 × 24 | $420

    Diplomacy in action.

  • Heavy Winds

    40 × 30 | $385

  • Heartquake

    36 × 24 | $320

  • Hazardous Waste

    24 × 18 | $285

  • Guardians

    40 × 30 × 2.5 | $620

  • Grid Failure

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Goddess of Oil

    24 × 36 | $420

  • Game Box

    30 × 24 | $350

  • Fugative from Davos

    30 × 24 | $380

  • Forest Spirit

    30 × 24 | $350

  • First Byte of the Metaverse

    30 × 24 | $350

  • Fire Womb

    $480

  • Fifteen Minute City

    30 × 24 | $350

  • Fading Glory

    24 × 24 | $280

  • Explanations

    24 × 30 | $420

    A blatant lie can require hours of clever argumentative support.

  • Escaped Hybrid

    48 x 36 | $420

  • Entanglement

    16 × 20 | $285

  • Earth Arrival

    48 × 36 | $480

  • Early Battle Same War

    16 × 20 | $300

  • Dropping By

    30 × 40 | $420

  • Domestic Dispute

    30 × 24 | $350

  • Diversion

    30 × 24 | $380

  • Distraction

    30 × 24 | $680

  • Dance the Distance

    40 × 30 | $680

  • Culling Chamber

    40 × 30 × 2.5 | $600

  • Cryptic

    36 × 24 | $480

  • Crop Dance

    24 × 18 | $320

  • Corsage

    18 × 24 | $225

  • Consumer Research Bureau

    30 × 24 | $350

  • Coincidence

    60 × 36 | $490

  • Classroom Still Life

    $120

  • Clarity

    18 × 24 | $285

  • Circling the Lab

    30 × 24 | $285

  • Chasing Sundown

    60 × 36 | $490

  • Chance Meeting

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Bus Stop

    30 × 24 | $380

  • Burning Question

    36 × 48 | $420

  • Buckling Bridge

    36 × 48 | $725

  • Breaking Through

    48 × 36 | $725

  • Bottom Feeder

    24 × 30 | $350

  • Before the Flood

    24 × 24 | $385

  • Back to Nowhere

    24 × 30 | $420

  • At the Train Station

    30 × 24 | $380

  • Armada

    30 × 24 | $350

  • American Selfie

    30 × 40 | $380

  • Adrift

    18 × 24 | $225

  • Ablution

    20 × 16 | $285

  • Abandoned Artifact

    30 × 24 | $350

  • --- Cold

    30 × 48 | $480

    The protection and extension of entrenched power is self-legitimizing. 

  • Anima

    sold

  • Are You Receiving

    sold

  • Aspiration

    sold

  • Beelzebub

    sold

  • Break Room

    sold

    A system that converts analysis to mass murder then analyses that.

  • By The River

    sold

  • Caught Being Real

    sold

  • Conscience

    sold

  • Flyover

    sold

  • Follow the Sun

    sold

  • Off Road Adventure

    sold

  • Self Discovery

    sold

  • Telling Time

    sold

  • That's Enough

    sold

  • View to Exterior

    sold

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