Artist Profile - Martyn Jones
Frostine - Verdant II
Medium: oil on canvas
Measurements: 26 x 26 cm framed
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Frostine - Verdant
Medium: oil on canvas
Measurements: 26 x 26 cm framed
Price: Please enquire
Frostine - Verdant II
Medium: oil on canvas
Measurements: 26 x 26 cm framed
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Biography
Martyn Jones is a contemporary Welsh painter who works from his studio based in Cardiff. Martyn graduated with a MA in Fine Art at the Chelsea School of Art, London and was awarded a Junior Fellowship at Bath Academy of Art. Among his tutors were the British artists Patrick Heron and Adrian Heath.
His abstract works derive inspiration from natural forms. Delving into the everyday reality of the spaces around the artist, Martyn has described his subject matter as follows: “My experiences of the world are the prime material for abstraction, employing my personal alphabet of shapes and colour”.
The vibrant, almost neon, colours reflect the vibrancy he sees in the world. The use of saturated colours are distinctive within his work. The expansive colours take on abstract shapes in which consume the composition but within these are small jewel-like accents of bright glimmering ultramarine, umber, violet or viridian creating deep sumptuous chromatic blacks on the canvas. One key motif within his work is the apparent chalk line. Martyn has said this invokes fragility to him that “I see these as precious and fragile, a gesture made by a child in chalk, and I feel that I capture the spontaneity of a child’s drawing with them, however, these lines cannot be created with a single or continuous brushstroke, they are painstakingly made with a tiny brush. The overall effect has a sense of immediacy, but the creative process is very different to this”. On the topic of the overall aim with his work, Martyn says “I think ultimately, I am searching for something unobtainable, a calm tranquility, an impossible form of transcendence, a perfect existence and that is what brings me back to the canvas”.
He has regularly exhibited in the UK, Europe and USA since 2004, including recent solo shows in New York, Florida and California. His work can be found in many different private and public collections which include: Wales International Center, New York Contemporary Art Society, London Allied Irish Banks, Wales Jalisco Government, Guadalajara, Mexico Feederle-Schlaffer, Zurich University of Dallas, Texas