Simon Stone was born in 1952 in Lady Grey in the Eastern Cape. He attended Michaelis School of Fine Art and graduated in 1976 with an Advanced Diploma in Fine Art. This was followed by a study tour of Italian Renaissance Art in Italy. In the 1980s Stone worked as a part-time lecturer in lithography at the University of Witwatersrand and as a part-time teacher at the Johannesburg Art Foundation. He currently lives and works in Cape Town.

Stone is a prolific painter who has built an impressive reputation over the years. He is best known for his symbolic collage paintings of landscapes and figures created in a variety of media including oil, gouache and encaustic. Stone began making his own artist sketchbooks in 1984. He ...