Jan Jones.

Jan Jones was born in Yorkshire, trained in York School of Art and lived and worked for many years in Wales.

She has been invited to take part in many exhibitions throughout the country, including the Mall galleries and her paintings have been shown at the Royal Academy for a number of years.

Jan's work can be seen in private and corporate collections worldwide. She was a winner in the "Not the Turner Prize" competition sponsored by the Daily Mail. 

Jan's first love is portraiture, she was a student of Leonard Boden R.P. the great man having encouraged her to seek her career in portraiture. More recently she has struck out in new directions, exploring figurative, still life and and landscape using a variety of materials. 

She still finds the freedom of contemporary painting a perfect foil for the more disciplined genre of portraiture.

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Artwork

I paint in many styles and different media, from oil-paints to acrylics, watercolours to pen and ink. I enjoy experimenting with textures and letting the media guide me into new horizons.

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  Portrait

  I prefer to work from life, but as most of my clients are increasingly busy people I have perfected a way of working from a series of photographs...

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  Landscape

  I avoided landscapes for a long time. I thought it a useless exercise to try and copy what God did better. Now my landscape painting is based on memories of places, an impression, capturing the essence of a place rather than slavishly copying...

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  Figurative

  People fascinate me. All the colours of the rainbow, from the grey suited executive, to the Whitby Goth and all the shades in between. A lot of my work features my daughter caught napping or tying up her hair, simple but sensual acts that beg to be painted...

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  Still Life and Abstract

  A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, and so on).

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  Children's

  Some of my paintings are suitable for children, either as decoration or sometime a unique portrait where the child is the central character.