ELAINE JONES PAINTING

Elaine was born in 1975 and grew up in the Midlands. She studied art and design at Newcastle Under Lyme 1994 - 1995 (where she was awarded the Fine art prize for painting) and at Loughborough University -  Granada University/Spain 1995-1998.

She now lives and paints in Bristol.

 

 Elaine's paintings embrace nature and through travel to remote, often uninhabited places she transports her viewer to wild and extreme climates. Organic shapes often provide a starting point to her work, the essence of which often focuses on the ethereal and the serene. Elaine often visits expanses that are devoid of humans, where expeditions to the glaciers of the Arctic and the rain and cloud forests of Costa Rica provide diverse contrast and subject matter. Paintings evolve a little bit like nature itself, structures are formed and then repeatedly broken down, changed, obliterated and then rebuilt. Paintings metamorphosis from layers of paint poured, scratched, brushed, pushed and rubbed out across the surface of the painting. Each painting takes on many forms until it meets its final resting place, a harmonious balance of chaos and order, serenity and movement, contrast and unity, space and colour.

 

Elaine’s work has been extremely successfully received at art fairs and in exhibitions in the UK, Europe and the US for over two decades, including, most recently, solo shows with the Fairfax Gallery in 2025, 2023 and 2021.First Contemporary in 2023,  and Clifton Contemporary in 2020, and regular group shows with those galleries as well as with Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Wills Art Warehouse, Modern Art Buyer and Gala Fine art. Elaine also works with design consultancies Artelier and International Corporate Art in Oslo, where she has completed various large-scale commissions for yachts and sailing boats.