Theresa Jones

Contemporary Jazz Art

Theresa's paintings featured on this website are the results of time spent in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the months leading up to Hurricane Katrina. Her uniquely candid style and sense of the mood created by the juxtaposition of form, light and the jazz music has produced an impressive gallery of contemporary art featuring jazz art paintings. All the jazz paintings featured are available as colour fast and long lasting "Giclee" prints on canvas, which come with a 100 year guarantee.

Biography

More than a decade ago Theresa developed an interest in contemporary art and impressionism, and was initially self-taught. While studying under Graham Painter her work developed a unique and candid style, working with an emotive and bold pastel palette. Theresa has since been influenced by the work of United States' Wolf Kahn and United Kingdom's Ken Howard.

The work maintained a level of detail, and evolved with the movement away from the Hampshire landscape where she was based. Theresa developed into oil and acrylic, increasing the range and scope of the landscape compositions and the construction of a studio in St Ives in Cornwall, has enabled her to encapsulate the range of seasons by the sea.

In New Orleans the jazz music and sights of the city inspired Theresa to create a sense of the mood of the French Quarter with attention to form over light. These images reflect the performance of the musicians and create a sense of their life and environs with the use of vignettes and the bold use of texture.

Exhibitions of Theresa Jones' paintings

Longships Gallery, St Ives - exhibiting now

Fisherton Mill, Salisbury - Solo show - May 2007

Chase Art, Wadebridge – Mixed Show - Oct 2006

Fisherton Mill, Salisbury – Two Person Show - Sept/Oct 2006

City Hall, London - Solo Show - Aug/Sept 2006

Virginia Waters Jazz Club - Solo Show - Jan 2006

Chelsea – Two Person Show - Dec 2005

Bay Gallery-Penzance, Cornwall - Feb '05

Salisbury Playhouse-Wiltshire - April '04

Two Person Show-St. Ives Art Club - June '04

St. Ives Exhibition-St. Ives, Cornwall - July '04

Pedn Olva Hotel-St. Ives, Cornwall - Oct. '04

Chase Gallery-Wadebridge, Cornwall - Dec '03

Schoolhouse Gallery-Morvah, Cornwall - Oct '02

Open Studio Southwest- St. Ives, Cornwall - June '02