Sharon Stone, the luminous 65-year-old movie star–turned visual artist, has a problem that’s relatively unique in the art world. “It’s packed when I have a show, and they won’t go home,” she tells L’OFFICIEL from her Beverly Hills home in March. She is a vision of loose and cheerful elegance, all gauzy knitwear and glowing skin. “I think that’s an extraordinarily good sign that something is right with my work.”
A painter from her early years, after a major Hollywood career–length pause, Stone picked up her brushes again during the pandemic and hasn’t put them down since. Her first gallery show, Shedding, at the Allouche Gallery in Los Angeles, is awash in idyllic abstract landscapes inspired by her dreamy early childhood, her resolute connection to nature, and the influence of artists she admires, like Alexander Calder, Joan Miró, and Wassily Kandinsky.
Here, she tells about why she started painting again, what she learned from Tony Duquette, and why she stopped listening to misogynists a long time ago.
