Sarah Stone is an L.A. based painter and sculptor. Raised in a small, central New Jersey town, she was an average student with an aptitude for history and literature. However, as noted on her permanent record, she exhibited an almost dogged determination to "avoid reaching her potential". Instead, she spent much of her time illustrating her favorite stories including fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, poems by ee.cummings, Greek myths, and poems by Poe. The last was a bit troubling to her 7th grade teachers who found detailed depictions of the Tell Tale Heart and Masque of the Red Death in the margins of her homework. In hindsight it may be agreed that this was the point at which her ducks began to leave their row. After receiving the upbeat assessment from her high school guidance counsellor that she should learn typing to Òhave something to fall back onÓ, she enrolled in the illustration department at PhiladelphiaÕs University of the Arts. Basking by night in the weirdness of the mid- eighties Philadelphia scene, she spent daylight hours learning the materials and techniques of 15th century Flemish painters. An obsessively narrow and unpopular field of interest then, as now, Sarah painted small haunting Bosch-like images that received no attention from her artistic peers. She got a night job as a bartender. Fortunately for her parents, who co-signed her student loan, she finished her BFA and hopped the next plane to Venice, California. There she discovered Roger CormanÕs New World studios and soon found her niche designing props and sets for the kitschy Corman sci-fi epics, ÒAndroidÓ and ÒSpace RaidersÓ. These projects opened the door to many other design commissions on feature films and television shows, eventually leading to membership in I.A.T.S.E.(International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees) local 44, the S.D.S.A. (Set DecoratorÕs Society of America), and A.M.P.T.A. (American Motion Picture and Television Association). After 15 years in this profession, including Set Decorating a show that was nominated for an Emmy in set design (Bette), Sarah decided to return to the types of artwork that give voice to her unique sense of creativity. Incorporating her set design experience with her flare for illustration, she now creates intimate, evocative, humorous and sometimes chilling miniature tableaux which reflect mythic and archetypal images of the subconscious and the id. Her artwork has been published in the L.A. Times and the L.A. Weekly, and has been in several shows in galleries around the Los Angeles area.