Jones works on the floor using buckets of acrylic, sand and varnish worked into a thick mixture to create gestural, textured abstraction, alive with movement and tension.
Rory A Jones is a self-taught artist living in East London. After leaving school having shown an aptitude for art, he graduated from Warwick university, lived abroad, studied languages and music and worked as a creative in London-based startups. After losing a full-time job in March 2020, Jones rented a nearby studio space and threw himself back into painting. Having spent the majority of 2020 alone in lockdown, this series of paintings is a meditation on solitude.
Jones works on the floor using buckets of acrylic, sand and varnish worked into a thick mixture to create gestural, textured abstraction, alive with movement and tension. Influenced by abstract expressionists–Kazuo Shiraga, Santiago Parra and Jackson Pollock, in particular–the negative space is important and each instinctive stroke is created in focused silence.