Sunshine Coast artist Sharon Stone is recognised throughout Australia and overseas for her extraordinary abstracts. Sharon spent her childhood in tropical Cairns where she acquired not only a love for the sea, but also the maverick ingenuity that today infuses her art.

Created from rich materials like beeswax, rice paper, gold leaf and acrylics, many of her paintings are inspired by water with the dramatic influence of sun and earth. Last year, she explored new concepts and developed innovative techniques to create a strikingly evocative series based on sacred geometry. In 2006 she continues to experiment with the vibrant Abstract Expressionism for which she has become so well known.   Sharon is also sought out by other artists to share the secrets to her mastery of the resin process which she utilizes in many of her works.

Poetry and literature inspire much of Sharon's work, but not always directly. She paints according to her moods, always pushing the envelope and asking "what if?" Often she plays with computerised images, distorting them until she sees something unusual. From there she develops a tangible, textured version on canvas which may involve layering materials like rice paper, beeswax, watercolour, acrylic and gold leaf, before finishing with resin to simulate the luminosity of water.

Paintings by Sharon Stone are always vivid: mostly blues and reds representing the antitheses of her emotions. She uses shades of blue and turquoise to calm and soothe, and red to inflame. Some of her paintings are colourful diversions from reality; others have greater significance.  As an antidote to her dramatic red works, Sharon's blue paintings are often tranquil and otherworldly, like floating soundlessly beneath the sea.

Perpetually exploring new concepts and developing the innovative techniques that distinguish her work, she enjoys the freedom abstract art offers both artist and audience. The enigmatic nature of her paintings means she feels neither bound to explain them nor cares how they're interpreted. Individual conjecture, she believes, only serves to make her work more interesting.

Sharon Stone's first solo exhibition in December 2003 was a sellout and she has been painting primarily on a commission basis ever since to keep up with demand. She has been a featured artist in a number of Queensland and national exhibitions, and her vibrant abstracts proudly owned by collectors throughout Australia, England, Scotland, New Zealand and the United States.