ANDREW MCNEILE JONES

Andrew McNeile Jones graduated from Oxford University’s Ruskin School of Art, with a first in Fine Art, in the 1980s. He then trained as a film-maker, working in all areas of film and television, but throughout this time continued to paint. In 2002 he decided to leave the film business in order to concentrate on his art.

He now lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and young family. He has exhibited regularly since 2003, and his work is in numerous private collections and several galleries around the UK. In 2007 he won the ‘Art Business Today’ first prize, and in 2008 won second prize in the ‘Artists & Illustrators’ Artist of the Year competition, in the still-life category.

Andrew says of his work that he aims to capture a certain atmosphere in a moment of light and shadow and reflection, often hinting at off-screen narrative. It is the stuff of the everyday, given new potency through oil paint; it is as much about the paint – the translation of the image – as the image itself.