INTERIOR ANGLE, ART DESIGN GALLERY AND FRAMING, CHELMSFORD, ESSEX

KAREN JONES

Illustration

The new collection is to be launched for the Glasgow Art Fair...

'Stories and Pictures…'

Karen jones is an exhibiting local artist at Interior Angle, art design gallery, in Chelmsford.

Karen Jones is one of a collection of Chelmsford's local artists that are on display at Interior Angle, art design gallery, Chelmsford, Essex.

Karen Jones is an experienced, talented illustrator who creates dark and beautiful paintings touched with a modernist, thought provoking twist. Her works are story telling images for the 21st century and each illustration is embedded with suggestions of quirky literary links and each holds tremendous sentimental value to the artist.

Karen paints with gouache, a rich, dense watercolour which creates her trademark velvety - flat illustrations. Her unique style and subject matter are a mixture of the real and the otherworldly, with images that capture the viewers imagination taking them on a journey into the childlike world of fairy tail and folk law to discover the darker realms of the adult mind – love and death, possession and jealousy, fear and hope.

With the inspiration of literature history, a colour pallet reminiscent of medieval wood-cuts and the influences of artists as diverse as Caxton and Caulfield, Karen Jones work will capture your imagination with its power beauty and subtlety.

Karen has recently accepted a post as Artist in Residence at Hylands Stables Artist Studios, Hylands Estate, Chelmsford and has exhibited in the Chelmsford Arts Trail as well as being actively involved in projects leading up to the Olympics.

After being selected for eight exhibitions in her first year of residency, Karen Jones work is becoming extremely sought after.

Her fresh original style, whilst capturing the spirit of our times, retaining a homage to the past.