Phoebe's studio is on the third floor of her house. The views and light are wonderful up there. Her studio and house are filled with the things she creates . . . from hand-painted screens and cupboards to hand-built ceramic vases filled with cut flowers from her garden.

"Step into Phoebe Stone's world, and you enter a fairy tale.

Inside the artist's peach colored Middlebury home, fresh-cut zinnias, dahlias and marigolds overflow from handmade vases, sweetening the air. Dancers and elephants cavort across tables and cabinets painted in brilliant reds and blues. Old-fashioned teddy bears and statues of cherubim cluster around antique lamps, and a life-size Madonna and child beam down from a stairwell.

'I like to create my own world.' Stone says with a shy smile. 'My editor says it's like walking into one of my books.'"

--By Heather Stephenson

Read the entire article that appeared in the Sunday Rutland Herald and the Sunday Times Argus

A house is a reflection of your spirit. I like to fill my house with color and interesting objects that inspire me and sometimes appear in my work. --Phoebe

 "Stone can't quite decide whether her art imitates her life, or her life imitates the art; it's all a delicious jumble. She just loves to create new worlds, full of huge butterflies, bright pansies, and bears playing the bassoon.

'If you have a passion,' she says, 'it makes life a great joy.'"

--Heather Stephenson,
The Rutland Herald/Times Argus