Katherine Jones RA, Soft Ruff, 2023 (framed)
Oil on wood panel, 24.5 x 32 x 3cm
Royal Academician Katherine Jones’ practice encompasses a wide range of contemporary and traditional printmaking techniques as well as watercolour and oil painting. Her limited edition and unique works are characterised by a particular luminosity whether it be generated by sunlight hitting water or the artificial glow from within a glasshouse.
Throughout her practice, Katherine has been interested in structures that historically provide shelter - but may be more fragile than first assumed. Much of her subject matter is inspired by her immediate surroundings such as the urban architecture and local parks of her home in south east London, or the Wiltshire countryside. However, the starting point for these latest works was time spent on an artistic residency in Kloster Bentlage, Germany, in the summer of 2023.
This is one of a group of new framed oil paintings being exhibited in our March 2014 exhibition ‘Drop Shadows’, at Sims Reed Gallery, London. The initial drawings for ‘Soft Ruff’ were inspired by seventeenth century portraits in the Städel museum, Frankfurt, by artists including Frans Hals. Like much of the imagery in Katherine’s new works, this structured, decorative ruff has morphed into a softer, sensual form. For the artist, the way in which the oversized ruffs symbolised status relates to the exuberant opening and blooming of flowers in the natural world; both are designed to attract attention.
Katherine graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 2003. She has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally including a solo exhibition at Rabley Gallery in 2021 and more recently in ‘Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking’ at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester . She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the London Original Print Fair Prize in 2014. She was also artist in residence at Eton College Drawing Schools in 2014; this experience informed Oliver Projects’ solo exhibitions of her work in 2020. Her work is held in public collections including the V&A Museum, London, Guangdong Museum, China, and Boston Athenaeum, USA. Katherine was elected a Royal Academician in April 2022. She lives and works in south east London.
Oil on wood panel, 24.5 x 32 x 3cm
Royal Academician Katherine Jones’ practice encompasses a wide range of contemporary and traditional printmaking techniques as well as watercolour and oil painting. Her limited edition and unique works are characterised by a particular luminosity whether it be generated by sunlight hitting water or the artificial glow from within a glasshouse.
Throughout her practice, Katherine has been interested in structures that historically provide shelter - but may be more fragile than first assumed. Much of her subject matter is inspired by her immediate surroundings such as the urban architecture and local parks of her home in south east London, or the Wiltshire countryside. However, the starting point for these latest works was time spent on an artistic residency in Kloster Bentlage, Germany, in the summer of 2023.
This is one of a group of new framed oil paintings being exhibited in our March 2014 exhibition ‘Drop Shadows’, at Sims Reed Gallery, London. The initial drawings for ‘Soft Ruff’ were inspired by seventeenth century portraits in the Städel museum, Frankfurt, by artists including Frans Hals. Like much of the imagery in Katherine’s new works, this structured, decorative ruff has morphed into a softer, sensual form. For the artist, the way in which the oversized ruffs symbolised status relates to the exuberant opening and blooming of flowers in the natural world; both are designed to attract attention.
Katherine graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 2003. She has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally including a solo exhibition at Rabley Gallery in 2021 and more recently in ‘Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking’ at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester . She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the London Original Print Fair Prize in 2014. She was also artist in residence at Eton College Drawing Schools in 2014; this experience informed Oliver Projects’ solo exhibitions of her work in 2020. Her work is held in public collections including the V&A Museum, London, Guangdong Museum, China, and Boston Athenaeum, USA. Katherine was elected a Royal Academician in April 2022. She lives and works in south east London.
Oil on wood panel, 24.5 x 32 x 3cm
Royal Academician Katherine Jones’ practice encompasses a wide range of contemporary and traditional printmaking techniques as well as watercolour and oil painting. Her limited edition and unique works are characterised by a particular luminosity whether it be generated by sunlight hitting water or the artificial glow from within a glasshouse.
Throughout her practice, Katherine has been interested in structures that historically provide shelter - but may be more fragile than first assumed. Much of her subject matter is inspired by her immediate surroundings such as the urban architecture and local parks of her home in south east London, or the Wiltshire countryside. However, the starting point for these latest works was time spent on an artistic residency in Kloster Bentlage, Germany, in the summer of 2023.
This is one of a group of new framed oil paintings being exhibited in our March 2014 exhibition ‘Drop Shadows’, at Sims Reed Gallery, London. The initial drawings for ‘Soft Ruff’ were inspired by seventeenth century portraits in the Städel museum, Frankfurt, by artists including Frans Hals. Like much of the imagery in Katherine’s new works, this structured, decorative ruff has morphed into a softer, sensual form. For the artist, the way in which the oversized ruffs symbolised status relates to the exuberant opening and blooming of flowers in the natural world; both are designed to attract attention.
Katherine graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 2003. She has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally including a solo exhibition at Rabley Gallery in 2021 and more recently in ‘Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking’ at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester . She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the London Original Print Fair Prize in 2014. She was also artist in residence at Eton College Drawing Schools in 2014; this experience informed Oliver Projects’ solo exhibitions of her work in 2020. Her work is held in public collections including the V&A Museum, London, Guangdong Museum, China, and Boston Athenaeum, USA. Katherine was elected a Royal Academician in April 2022. She lives and works in south east London.
