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Elaine Jones

born

1975, Burton-upon-Trent, England

type of artwork

painting
prepared to undertake commissions

art education

1994 - 1995 Newcastle-under-Lyme College of Art and Design, BTec Diploma in Foundation Studies in Art & Design - Distinction
1995 - 1998 Loughborough College of Art and Design, BA (Hons.) Degree in Fine Art Painting - Upper Second

exchange

January - May 1997 Exchange to Granada, Spain

mixed exhibitions

1995 End of Year Exhibition, Newcastle-under-Lyme College
1996 Astra Pharmaceutical Company, Loughborough, six months loan
1998 Degree Show Exhibition, Loughborough College of Art & Design
1998 Permanent Exhibition on New British Artists web site
1999 Fat Stoogie Open Studio Exhibition, Bristol
1999 The Directors Cut, a group exhibition of recent graduates at Park View Fine Paintings, Bristol. This led to a permanent exhibition space within the gallery.
1999 Christmas Exhibition, Jamaica Street Studios, Bristol
1999 The 20 Day Gallery, Picton Street, Bristol
2000 Moya Bucknell Design Ltd., Birmingham. This led to sales in London offices.
2000 Christmas Exhibition, Washington Gallery, Penarth

catalogue

1998 Degree Show Catalogue, Loughborough College of Art and Design

awards, commissions

1995 Fine Art Prize, Newcastle-under-Lyme College of Art and Design
1998 Two Private Commissions
1999 Commission for Travis Metal Products, Coleford

collections

1998 Five paintings purchased by Welcome Break Motorway Hotels
1999 Several purchases to private clients through New British Artists

artist's statement

I have developed recent work by showing polarities, those existing within both the formal aspects of painting and contemporary society as a whole. These border on the harmonic and the chaotic by creating a language through the use of contrasting colours, shapes and images.

Certain areas of my paintings suggest Romantic Landscape images, heightened by size and spontaneity they seem to initially relate to Abstract Expressionism. However, rather than being action paintings as such, they are made up from controlled aspects of everyday imagery. As with the work of Fiona Rae, Peter Halley and Jessica Stockholder, my Abstractions are made by fusing modern day objects such as computer circuits, gas fires, chimneys, brick walls, scaffolding, animal fur and cheap jewellery. These, along with life drawings and cityscapes act as barriers to control the amount of liberty the paint can have. By obscuring, layering and reworking an overall image of tack, ugliness or beauty is created. I am particularly concerned with this struggle between Nature and Technology, between old and new, realism and abstraction.

With my most current work, I have been painting onto computer circuits and panelled board. I have also been experimenting with computer generated shapes. Through the use of filters, I have been able to produce images which deconstruct and reassemble to reveal scattered pixels, blurred out images and bleeding paint; with the aim to develop a language that people today can relate to.

Artist's Work

Design