BIOGRAPHY
Insightful, humorous and melancholy and equal measure, the complicated portraiture by Jon Jones provide inexhaustible viewing.
Self-deprecating by nature, he insists that these works of tremendous depth and expression begin as no more than a scribble, and the process itself is “a bit like a jigsaw puzzle, you start with the edges and build in and eventually you know you are on the right path” . Favouring oil on board as his medium of choice, he says “Canvas has a texture which I don’t like and the canvas itself has more give, compared to board. I want to be able to hit the board with a whack!” Birmingham born, on leaving Moseley School Jon Jones attended Solihull College and Bourneville College of Art where he studied Fine Art, Sculpture and Ceramics. From here it was on to DeMontford University in Leicester, where he studied for a degree in Visual Art/ Fine Art. Returning to his native Birmingham on graduation, Jones opened not one but two studios – one in the then newly opened Custard Factory and another in the somewhat less expected surroundings of the upstairs rooms of The Hare & Hounds, now one of south Birmingham’s more popular nightspots for music and art. Jon has achieved sell-out exhibitions not just in Birmingham and London but as far flung as Sydney Australia, numerous shortlistings for such coveted awards as the British Portrait Gallery National Portrait Awards, and the keen interest of collectors and critics around the world.
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