At 66, Stone is no longer offered roles worthy of her talents – so she paints up to 17 hours a day. She opens up about Hollywood, her tough upbringing and letting her ‘creative faucet flow’
One day a close friend of Sharon Stone’s went for dinner with her family. The friend’s father-in-law counselled that she should not choose pizza, since she had just had a baby and ought to lose weight. This incident inspired one of Stone’s paintings, It’s My Garden, Asshole: a gorgeous acrylic on canvas depicting a shimmering impressionistic garden held together with an undulating ground of salmon and De Kooning-esque pinks.
So the father-in-law was the asshole, I ask? Not quite, explains the star during a video call from her California home. When Stone came to make the painting, a drone was hovering over her home. You can see a black smudge top left of the canvas. “I was like, these people need to get the fuck out of our garden. They’re so busy trying to spy on us that they don’t even have any idea what’s really happening.”
