Georgie Stone
Any house that looks loved is of interest to me. I draw people’s homes and it’s a privilege to be tasked to do this. Any home that is taken care of and nurtured is something close to the owner’s heart, it’s uniquely theirs. Like a loved one.
I’m interested in any style of home – Queenslanders, post war, all eras. I’ll put one of my flyers in the letterbox of any home that looks loved as I walk through the streets.
My work is stylised but highly detailed. I use black ink pen on watercolour paper and each work takes about 10 hours to complete.
I’ll have a good chat with the owner and find out any special requests such as including a pet on the driveway or having the jacaranda tree in full bloom.
I often deliver the finished artwork personally and, after looking at a home in such detail, when I’m walking towards it, it feels as though I’m walking into the drawing. I know the house so intimately.
I was born and grew up in Sydney with my sister Sarah, 38, a journalist, and my parents (Stewart, 70, and Lucie Crawford, 69). Dad was a town planner and he also worked in government as chief-of-staff for the NSW Education and Training Minister (Labor’s John Aquilina) in the 1990s.
But he’s also done drawing and painting since I was young, and he did a Bachelor of Fine Arts in his mid-50s.
Mum was an economics high school teacher. She has a PhD and later became an academic in industrial relations.
Very early on, I knew I loved art. I studied a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the University of Sydney and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies before moving to Lismore, in northern NSW, to do my DipEd (Graduate Diploma in Education) at Southern Cross University. There are a lot
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