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Artist born in High Cross, Hertfordshire, producing paintings, prints and collages in which the imagery could be fragmented and oblique. The studio interiors of Georges Braque and the early work of Willem de Kooning were influences. Jones gained an honours degree in fine art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1977–81 (he later became studio demonstrator in painting there), studying for his master’s at Chelsea School of Art, 1982–3. He was fellow in fine art at Gloucester College of Art and Technology, Cheltenham, 1983–4, in the latter year winning a Boise Scholarship to Spain; was artist-in-residence, Humberside College of Higher Education, Hull, 1986–7; won a Monbusho Scholarship, Kyoto University of Arts, Japan, 1987–9; and Northern Arts Travel & Training Grant to Germany, 1992.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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