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photo by Bernard Mitchell, 1999
. Megan Jones
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"Fan Hir a Rhaeadr", 1992
oil on board
76x51cm
"Caean wrth..y Mynydd Du", 1994
gouache on paper
46x61cm
"Blaenrhondda", 1990-92
mixed media on paper
76x51cm(in private collections)
Magan Jones was born in 1936 in Crynant, South Wales. From 1952 to 1957 she studied Fine Art at the Swansea College of Art. She works from her studio at Ystradgynlais in the Swansea Valley; mentor: Alfred Janes
Megan Jones' response to subject matter is expressed in strong colour, with a sure sense of rhythm and structure, evoking a sense of place altered by light and time (quoted, by kind permission of the artist, from a leaflet to the exhibition 'Visual Arts' at Neath Port Talbot).
"The study of landscape has numerous levels that may be approached separately, but always 'overlap', one aspect touching another. There are three elements, i.e. subject and self, the third being medium. I usually mix media - oils with pastel, gouache over collage papers with charcoal, conte with water based paints, gouache and household emulsions and other combinations - even using cosmetics on old envelopes! Along with this I draw regularly with charcoal, charcoal pencil or soft graphite. Recent works have been composed of collage paper, plastic and found natural materials such as grass and feathers." (quoted by permission of the editor of 'Revelations' 2000/1, p.34).
Awards: 1994 Arts Council of Wales award to study the wild and rugged landscapes of Newfoundland & Labrador
International Links:
collections abroad=Lidice Community/Czechoslovakia; Nippon-Seike/Japan; University of Newfoundland/Canada; British & Continental Fuel/Belgium;
exhibitions abroad=1997 Welsh Group exhibition at the European Parliament Strasbourg; 2000 dfn-Galleries Soho Manhatten N.Y./USA; 2001 Welsh Group Exhibition in Libramont/Belgium;
