Nicholas Jones was born in Bristol in 1965 and studied Fine Art at Bristol Polytechnic. For three years he worked almost exclusively in the medium of stained glass. In 1990 he returned to painting and in the space of twelve months began to discover his own artistic identity, working with a sudden confidence, intensity and independence on a series of abstracted landscapes.

For two and a half decades Nick Jones’ took inspiration from within the shores of the British Isles as he sought to evoke the world of nature, of hills, mountains, water, skies, trees, and above all, light. Of these paintings, the journalist and author Roger Berthoud wrote, “There is in [them] the same identification with
the spirit of place that permeates the great line of English landscapists, from the Norfolk school through Turner and Samuel Palmer to Paul Nash and the neo-Romantics led by Graham Sutherland, and some members of the St Ives school.”

Nick recently took up screen printing and has found it to be a wonderful complimentary practice to his painting. He has delighted in the freedom to experiment that printmaking offers. His most recent prints mark a return to his interest in more ambiguous landscape imagery, now informed by his experiences of the spacious light, stillness and silence of the Arctic.

One of the most striking qualities of Nick’s luminous, ethereal, and deeply silent paintings and prints are their capacity to quieten ‘inner chatter or noise’ in the onlooker. They offer fertile territory for contemplation and provide a very necessary place of refuge from the relentless noise of modern life.

Nick Jones has been represented by the Crane Kalman Gallery in London for over thirty years. He lives and works near Bristol and has three grown up children.