When I first posted an image of Yo Ho Boho to Instagram, it received so many lovely comments, that I deciced that it would be the perfect ‘face monotype’ to be reproduced as a limited edition giclée print. My monotypes are one-off unique pieces, painted with brushes through a silkscreen. The technique is very unpredictable but when they work, the results can be exciting and joyous.

Yo Ho Boho was inspired by the approach of winter, log fires and Norwegian wooly jumpers. The concept of Hygge - getting cosy Scandi style but with a sense of fashion and fun.

If you would like to add a little Hygge to your life, yo Ho Boho is now available from the SHOP area. £90 + p&p

Yo Ho Boho Limited edition print

For the second year running, my work is being shown at The Affordable Art Fair New York with The Fine Art Consultancy.

This year I have some large, colourful monotypes, inspired by trips to the coast in France and England. I spent a dreamy week at Cagnes-sur-Mer, just outside Nice on the Côte D’Azure during the heatwave. Apart from days by the sea trying to keep cool, we visited Renoir’s house and garden which gave me the inspiration to paint Palm Tree on my return.

An exhibition of prints and silkscreen monotypes A memory diary of places visited.

I am having a solo show featuring over 60 paintings and monotypes, at For Arts Sake Ealing. I am delighted to be the first local artist to have been asked to exhibit in the gallery. My recent work is a series of memories, an expressive response to places seen and visited. Over time I have moved away from producing representational work to being more interested in mood and memory.

For the exhibition, I gave an interview to Alexa at For Arts Sake. She has written a fantastic piece which you can read here.

MEET THE ARTIST

I look forward to being in the gallery on the afternoon of the 19th January from 1-5pm. If you’re in West London, why not join me for a glass of wine and I can show you the work.

Ealing Art Trail - September 2018

Jill, Andy and I had a great couple of weekends welcoming the public to view our work at this year’s open studio as part of Ealing BEAT.

Andy Lomas’s computational 3d sculptural forms, moving images and prints blew not only me, but the whole of Ealing away. They look as if they’ve emerged from the ocean - but an ocean from a parallel world.

jill’s beautiful landscape paintings and prints were much appreciated and I had a chance to display some new large canvases along with smaller works and silk screen monotypes.

We met a large number of very interesting and interested people and would like to thank all that came.

Iona Stern’s large abstract oil paintings and screen printed monotypes. Andy Lomas’s 3D sculptures.

Thank you Gina Pierce design for the photograph showing screen print monotypes.

Fresh Art Fair 27 – 29 April Cheltenham Racecourse.
Showing with The Fine Art Consultancy.

I am delighted to be showing for the first time with Kathryn Bell at the Fine Art Consultancy. It’s also my first time at Fresh Art Fair, which is located at the Cheltenham racecourse. Kathryn is showing 11 of my new works, some of which are below. They are all hand painted monotypes – painted directly onto the screen. I am a painter who uses print techniques to create colourful and expressive landscapes and abstracts.

This weekend, if you’re in or close to Cheltenham here is the link for Fresh Art Fair tickets.

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Keep Cool by Iona Stern. Screen print monotype

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Deep End by Iona Stern. Silk screen monotype

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Down below the border by Iona Stern. Monotype

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Ahoy there by Iona stern. Silk screen monotype

The Other Art Fair are partnering with Habitat on a creative venture involving the work of emerging artists.

UPDATE: I won! hurrah! My print was one of the chosen works to be printed as a limited edition print in Habitat Stores and online.

Habitat are hosting an online competition to select the summer collection of figurative art works for their galleries section in-store and they have selected one of my works for entry.

Out of past and present exhibitors at The Other Art Fair, they have selected me as 1 of 10 artists to be hosted on the Habitat website where Habitat customers will the vote for their favorite 5. These 5 pieces of art will then be printed and framed by the Habitat team and 20 prints will be sold in the three flagship London stores. Artists will also have a biography and link next to their art in store.

Which is all very exciting! If you have a moment and would like to vote for me, please select No 4. On the diagonal.

Cast your vote here: https://www.habitat.co.uk/art

Finding abstraction through figuration. Oil and charcoal on paper. Painting size 13in X 17in

The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, WC1, March 2018

I am delighted to be exhibiting again at The Other Art Fair, West End in March.

All my work on show is new, bright and bold. I am exhibiting a number of monotype and collage combines.

If you’d like the code to register for a ticket, just let me know: enquiries@ionastern.com

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My love of screen printing started young. My earliest screen print was done when I was studying for my A levels at DLA (Drama and Liberal Arts) Stratford-upon-Avon college. Having recently left my very strict girls’ school in Warwick, the new freedom the course offered was a like a breath of fresh air. DLA was a hotspot of theatrical talent and many well known actors, writers and directors started their careers under the tutelage of the head, Gordon Vallins. It was an amazing time but I never lost sight of wanting a career in art.

For much of my life I worked as a creative art director/designer, and came back to painting just six years ago. What is exciting is that I have recently rediscovered my love of silkscreen but this time around have found a way to combine painting and printing by painting directly on the back of the screen and then pulling through.

It has opened up a whole new world and I feel as if I’m back as a child making pools of fabulous colour which I combine in a free and expressive way.

A couple of examples of my hand painted silkscreen monotypes.

NEW DAY. Hand painted monotype. Coastal scene.

Another coastal scene. ‘Across the pebbles’. Hand painted monotype.

Iona Stern, Jo Vollers, Caroline Atkins and Helen Adie.
54 The Gallery, 22nd-27th May 2017

TAKE 4 painters and printmakers – an exhibition of colour, theatre, intrigue and expression.
54 The Gallery, Shepherd Market, London W1J 7QX

Exhibition dates

Monday 22-27 May 2017.
Open daily 10am-6pm

Monotype inspired by the view north from Saltburn beach. 33′ x 25′ framed in white wood.

The Other Art Fair – 30 March-2nd April, Victoria House, Southampton Row, London WC1A 2GP

I’m delighted to have been selected to exhibit at The Other Art Fair.

The Other Art Fair 6-9 October Old Truman Brewery

IONA STERN at The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, Hanbury Street, London E1 6QR

PREVIEW NIGHT Thursday 6th Oct 5 – 9.30pm
Fri 7th 12-9.30pm Saturday 8th 11am-7pm Sunday 9th 11am-6pm
Visit The Other Art Fair

Hand pulled screen print. 50 x 60 cm Framed

I’m incredibly honoured to have been asked to take part in the Ealing Art Trail promo video which has been shown at open air cinemas across West London over the summer. That’s me studying my prints, and painting in the studio and sorting cells for my next screenprint. Why not come and see me in reality at BEAT, Ealing Art Trail? There are 54 open artist studios across the borough across 2 weekends. 9-11 & 16-18 Sep. Find me on MAP 3 VENUE 52.
My address: 2 Castlebar Road, W5 2DP. Check out the website for more details.

BEAT : Borough of Ealing Art Trail 2016 from James Lewis on Vimeo.

9-11 & 16-18 September

2 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5 2DP (2 minutes walk from Ealing Broadway tube) Map link

This September Ealing artists (BEAT) are opening their studios to the general public as part of the London art trail. Please come and visit me in my hayloft studio. (Just two minutes walk from Ealing Broadway station) I will have my latest St Ives inspired landscape prints and paintings as well as work from the last 5 years, all for sale at reasonable prices.

The beach, rock and inlets around St Ives. Monotype.in my hayloft studio and see both new and older works on display.

Washed out still life of pots on table. Oil on canvas. 2014

Autumn gold. 19 in X 25 in. Oil on paper. 2013

Oil on canvas 2013

Use of flat oils painted with a large brush.

Oil on canvas. 2012Painted at the studio in Lots Road, Chelsea Fine Arts.

Oil on canvas. 2011

Oil and oil pastel on canvas. 20 in X 16 in 2015

The Swann Gallery host a Fashion and Art Summer Party at Bluedog and Sought.

Fashion and Art Summer Party at Bluedog and Sought 5 Park Street Woodstock OXON Saturday 7 June 12 noon onwards. Art work by Iona Stern and Catwalk show by Lisa Redman well known fashion designer.

I’m delighted to be showing my work, from the middle of this month, at The Swann Gallery, Rye.

The works include my largest still life to date, 30 x 40 inches, framed in lime-washed oak – perfect for a contemporary setting. Other works include street scenes, figures, landscape and abstract still life.

The Swann Gallery – From May 2014
Mermaid Street, Rye, East Sussex. TN31 7ES

Washed out still life of pots on table. Oil on canvas

Iona Stern and Jill Fairbairns. Two expressive painters come together to offer a show full of colour and light. Their paintings share a dynamic approach to landscapes, still life and the figure. 21-26th January. Open daily 10am-6pm.

With sculpture from Sally Joyston-Bechal

54 The Gallery – map link

54 Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London, W1J 7QX

Nearest tube Green Park

Autumn gold. 19 in X 25 in. Oil on paper..

Cafe scene by Iona Stern. Oil painting on paper

While touring Italy we visited Elba. The old town of the port, Portoferraio is very pretty with many cafes and street life.

Everyone who came up to me, pointed at the waitress and said, Carla. So it had to be Carla’s cafe in the old town Portugal.

It’s all go. The harbour market Olhao, Portugal. Oil on board.

The shimmering cobbled streets of Olhao.

The Old Town Olhao. Oil on canvas

The flower shop and cafe in the Old Town, Olhao. Oil on board.

Iona Stern, London Art Exhibition 21-26 January 2014 At 54 The Gallery, Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London W1J 7QX

My next art exhibition is in the heart of London.
I am showing recent paintings which follow my a journey from abstracted realism into abstraction.
Colour and expression are the most important elements in my work.

I paint in oil on a variety of surfaces; canvas, board, wood and paper

The paintings are framed and affordable.

54 The Gallery, Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London W1J 7QX
21-26th January 2014 inclusive

Autumn gold. 19 in X 25 in. Oil on paper..

May 24th – September 30th
Summer House Fine Arts
693 Boston Post Road (downtown) Madison, CT 06443

About six weeks ago I was contacted by Laura Prete of Summer House Fine Arts. Whilst researching St. Ives artists, Laura came across my work. Laura asked me whether I would you be interested in exhibiting a few pieces in her gallery located on the Connecticut shoreline.

The works submitted are ‘Hot Lemons’, ‘Spring’ and ‘Waiting for the approaching tide.’
Visit my listing at summerhousefineart.com/iona-stern

The gallery opens for the summer season on May 24th, close at the end of September. So if you’re in the area...