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Irene Jones

Irene Jones

  • Hybrid Gallery Irene Jones  Cupid's Messenger
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene Jones Elnora
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Asta
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene Jones Of Air and Angels
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene Jones  Wait a While
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene Jones  Waiting for No One
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene Jones Fabbienne
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene Jones Emmeline
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene Jones The Secret Hour
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene Jones Prince Alessandro
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene Jones Barretta
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene Jones Ginevra
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene Jones Beauty's Pattern
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene Jones Fulmar Wing
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene Jones Tremaine Mist
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene Jones Nadine
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene Jones A Knowing Smile
  • Hybrid Gallery Irene  Jones Fair and Wise is She
  • Irene Jones  Bude Flood Wedding

Irene Jones’ painting is inspired by her love of Elizabethan portraiture, fuelled by her passion for storytelling and practised through a lifetime of painting. Aged 13 Irene attended the art school attached to Nottingham College of Arts and Crafts. Here she later studied graphic design and went on to work on sets in repertory theatre before pursuing her own art.

The influence of the theatre is evident in her work, in the lavish costumes and particularly in the way she creates a sense of having interrupted the drama mid action. Controlled gestures, sideways glances and symbolic details feed the narrative yet do not impose a single story. Her interest in history is clear, however these paintings are not slavishly historical. Rather, fixed in the 21st century they are concerned with the perennial issues of human life; love, loss, desire, friendship and betrayal. Informed by dreams, fears but most of all her imagination they are unique and timeless.

Since 1970 Irene has lived in Devon exhibiting in the south west including at the Royal West of England Academy.

 

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