Philip Jones (Born 1933) was a contemporary artist living in Norfolk. He trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and produced several pieces of art that he exhibited annually (for more than 10 years) at the Summer Exhibition in The Royal Academy. He drew his inspiration from the landscape and fields that surrounded him, as well as from his travels abroad. At the beginning, his only trouble was that he didn’t know what or whom he had fallen in love with. He had a strong feeling and knew that he had to do some painting of abstracted rounded landscapes the moment he saw some on the wall of a dealer. But the dealer could not tell him anything further about the painter of the landscape. Five years later, he came across a bunch of work from unmistakably the same artist, and all was revealed. This was at an art fair and since then, he started to produce high quality work and many fans followed his work with fanatical zeal.
He seemed to be just about the best painter of his kind who was still around and was still developing. Essentially Jones was sui generis. His pieces of art were all somehow connected with landscape, and to his passionate individual responses to it. The connections were often complex and devious. For Jones was an abstractionist. And with every exhibition the artist seemed to move on. He was able to explore further within his own sensibilities, but remained finely consistent with his earlier selves and personality. With each new work the viewers experienced something completely new and unique, and at a deeper level that what they seem to have known it all their life.
