Jane Jones
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MEDIUMS: Oil
SPECIALTY: ✔ Artistic Process & Mindset ✔ Color ✔ Composition
Learning to make art is a lot like learning to write. The first things that artists usually learn are the materials a that they need to use, and then how to use those materials, which is technique, technique, and more technique. Learning techniques can take a lot of time and practice. This is like learning the alphabet and words.
As a part of techniques, an artist needs to learn how to mix the colors that they want, and not just accept what they got from the paint. Colors are very expressive, and taking control of them in a painting makes the painting experience a lot more enjoyable and successful.
At some point each artist needs to learn how to put all of that information together in a meaningful way and consider how and what they want to communicate. This involves learning how to use color and composition to create that expression.
Learning how to use color and composition in expressive ways is a lifelong journey, filled with wonderful “A-Ha” moments. It is a lot of information to learn, which can be overwhelming, but challenging yourself with just a little bit of information at a time can help you to become aware of what you can do to create more successful paintings.
Underpainting and Glazing is the technique that I use to create luscious colors and luminous light in my paintings. The areas where I use this look like they are lit from within and make those areas extra special. It is a slow technique that allows the artist to carefully consider what they are doing, and to make changes if their ideas don’t work out. I have been using it for a long time and learn new ways of working with it in every painting.
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Specialty: ✔ Artistic Process & Mindset ✔ Color ✔ Composition
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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
The short statement is “Every painting is a prayer for the preservation of nature and this beautiful planet upon which we live.”
Light invests Jones’ flowers with energy and liveliness. The transitory nature of both the flowers and the light makes the moment an occasion that deserves to be appreciated, savored, and remembered. Throughout the painting process she remains aware of this and invests the painting with her experience of that moment of exquisite beauty.
All of the flowers, except for orchids, are grown in the gardens that she and her husband cultivate at their home which is in Colorado at the base of the Rocky Mountains. As the gardener of most of the flowers in her paintings, she has a deep appreciation for all of their life cycles and the fleeting moments of beauty that occur. Having such a close connection to the plants and flowers that she paints and watching the changing climate in which they grow presents her with an urgency to paint them in the most compelling ways possible because I might not be able to grow them in the future.
Her compositions are spare, presenting the flowers like fine jewels. All extraneous details of the external world are excluded allowing the viewer to focus on a moment of elegance, harmony, and dignity. The paintings are a still moment when the dimension of the outside world falls away, and the details of nature can be seen and appreciated. Her paintings illustrate her desire and hope for the possibility of harmony and balance in the world, and a moment for meditation on our relationship to nature
The aesthetic pleasure of illuminated colors and forms is obvious in her paintings. She is also interested in beauty. It is something people respond to, is uplifting and hopeful…the desire for it is universal. Flowers occupy the elevated level of beauty, which moves us and evokes notes of aspiration to vibrate within us.
BIOGRAPHY
Jones is a Denver native and continues to live near there at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, where the light that she loves is bright and clear, and the seasons, which influence her work, are definite in their character and moods.
She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology in 1976 but chose not to work in that field. She says of the education that “Looking into the lives of cells, plants and animals gave me a glimpse into the awesome power of living things, the elegance of living systems, and an incredible respect for them”, which informs her work today.
Later Jones graduated from art school and went on to earn a Master of Arts degree in Art History, which she taught at two colleges in the Denver area for over 20 years. Through art history studies, she came to know the lives and styles of many of the master artists of the past. Two artists whose work has influenced her are Michelangelo Buonarroti for his dedication to his work, clarity of composition and communication, and the paintings of Johannes Vermeer have influenced her aesthetic of light in her paintings as well as her technique. The Dutch still life and floral masters have enriched Jones’ sense of historical roots in subject matter. They remind her that an appreciation and aesthetic of beauty in ordinary things has a long and rich tradition.
She has embraced these historical influences, but it is her belief that each artist must be of their own time and place. Jones uses these influences to create paintings that are contemporary and based in her own aesthetics, beliefs, and life experiences. Her art reflects her academic studies as well as her passion for the power, beauty, and fragility of life.
Jones’ work is exhibited nationally in museums and galleries, and her traveling museum exhibition (2022 – 2024), Cultivating the Dutch Tradition in the 21st Century, Jane Jones’ Hyperrealist Floral Paintings was invited to five museum venues. Her paintings have won numerous national awards including the Award of Excellence in Blossoms II: Art of Flowers at the Naples Museum of Art in 2011, the Floral Award in the Annual Exhibition of the International Guild of Realism in 2013 and 2018, and she is the author of Classic Still Life Painting.
