Virtual Exhibitions ▸ Paula Jones – Mixed Media

1st—26th November 2021

Paula Jones has always had a fascination with portraiture. Visiting the National Portrait Gallery and staring into the faces painted by the Old Masters captivated her as a teenager. She has an academic background in geography and environmental sustainability and a love of being in nature and in particular wild swimming. These elements of her life have led her to create pieces focussing on our human connection to the world and questioning how we see ourselves in this context.

She is interested in issues pertaining to gender, diversity and equality. In her felt work these issues are explored more explicitly, whilst in her paintings a greater subtlety of their consideration is employed. She is inspired by a variety contemporary artists such as Peter Field, Colin Davidson and Bisa Butler, as well as the likes of Thomas Gainsborough and the silhouette making artists of the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century.

Paula is a mixed media artist and enjoys working with an ever increasing range of media and processes including felt, oil paint, acrylic paint, oil and soft pastel and mono-printing. She says that she gets so much joy out of moving between media and combining media that she couldn’t imagine limiting herself to working in just one!

This is Paula’s debut exhibition and as such it is an exciting opportunity to see this artist’s work for the first time in a gallery situation.

Paula is open to commissions and future exhibition opportunities.

Instagram: @paulapeajelly
Email: peajellydesigns@gmail.com
Website: PeaJelly.com

Paula Jones – Number 1: Becky
Number 1: Becky