Simon Jones Painter

Evening Dinefwr Acrylic plein air 12" wide total

2012-01-28T20:21:00.000Z

Cloudburst Towy Valley, Acrylic

2012-01-28T19:25:00.000Z

Rain Mountain Oak, Acrylic Plein air and studio 9" wide

2012-01-28T18:30:00.000Z

Evening Garn Goch Hillfort, Mixed Media, plein air and studio, 10" wide.

2012-01-23T20:32:00.002Z

This painting was a lot better before I tried to improve it.

2012-01-21T20:41:00.001Z

Winter Dinefwr Castle 8" wide Acrylic Plein Air.

Winter Landscape Dryslwyn, Acrylic 11" wide Plein Air.

2012-01-07T20:30:00.001Z

Dryslwyn Castle in the Towy valley (Wales) is such a brilliant place to paint from. Panoramic 360 views, so you can chose best sun setting for time of day etc.

Winter Sun Dryslwyn Castle, Acrylic 10" wide.Plein Air.

2012-01-07T20:25:00.001Z

Very freely done on the spot,

"Surf" Plein Air and studio, acrylic, 14 inches wide.

2011-11-06T11:24:00.000Z

Again this should really be viewed large to get it.

Summer Tenby Plein Air and studio, Acrylic, 9.5 inches wide.

2011-11-01T19:58:00.001Z

This painting is about a month old, finally got round to uploading it.

Evening Towy

2011-09-20T20:45:00.003+01:00

Plein air and studio, acrylic on card 11.5 " wide.
Was happy with the mix of colours in this, this painting moved considerably from its beginnings, tried to wrestle with the foreground vs background centre of intrest. ends up kinda soft and harmonious.

Sunshine shower Llandyffeisant

2011-09-20T19:59:00.002+01:00

Plein air and studio Acrylic on card 13.5" wide.

Sat in the rain, you dont normally get an excuse to sit in the rain, I need to sit in the rain more often.

Bend in River Towy

2011-09-20T19:31:00.002+01:00

Plein Air and studio, Acrylic on card, 10 3/4 " wide.

Liked the way the river falls splat on the landscape like a wet fish.

Rocket Gothic. St Davids Cathedral.

2011-09-03T12:20:00.001+01:00

Plein air and studio, acrylic on card. 29 cms wide. Wanted building to look organic and dynamic.

Dinefwr Castle Sunset, Acrylic on card 42 cms wide, plein air and studio.

2011-08-30T20:29:00.003+01:00

Fairly pleased with this, but feel there are too many colours going on, heck I should give up on being tasteful.
Again this should be seen full sized to get it.

Nolton Haven Breezy, Acrylic on card 42 cms wide. Pein Air and studio.

2011-08-29T20:41:00.002+01:00

Nearly got blown off the edge of the cliff.

Sunset Dinefwr park, Acrylic on card , 24 cms wide, Plein air and Studio.

2011-08-28T21:01:00.001+01:00

Cloudburst Towy Valley.Plein air and studio, 43cms wide, acrylic.

2011-08-28T20:39:00.001+01:00

Looks a bit frenetic, again it needs to be seen large to get all the textural brushstrokes.

Dryslwyn Castle path.

2011-08-19T14:07:00.001+01:00

Acrylic on card 30 cms wide, part plein air, again this needs to be seen large, to see the brush strokes, which are a major part of the intention.

Rocks Sea Sun

2011-08-18T20:47:00.001+01:00

Acrylic on card, 30cms wide, to get this painting, it needs to be seen LARGE, sort of daubs of paint again.

Whitesands

2011-08-10T20:41:00.001+01:00

Dryslwyn track, plein air acrylic 30cms wide

2011-04-21T13:36:00.000+01:00

This benefits a lot from viewing large.

Spring Wood

2011-04-19T20:47:00.001+01:00

Part Plein Air, part studio, acrylic, approx 30cm by 25cm. Basic composition based on thirds, then an awful mess inbetween. This should be seen large scale to "get it".

Porthgain

2011-04-11T20:40:00.000+01:00

This was partly Plein Air and partly studio. I wanted to kind of marry calligraphic brush strokes to dynamic landscape forms. So I saw the grass clifftop as blancmange cascading over the fingers of rock that make up the cliffs. Nothing much considered or detatched about this way of painting, but its kind of invigorating. Could have abstracted it further, but thought I,d quit whilst I was ahead.

"Pub Walk" Oil on board 12" by 8"

2010-10-14T20:04:00.000+01:00

Walking down stairs. Oil on board 12" by 6"

2010-10-09T17:09:00.000+01:00

Looking, oil on board 12"by 6"

2010-10-09T17:06:00.000+01:00

This video available in High Definition (720p) if your system and connection will allow.Click on the image to get the 720p option

2010-10-08T13:30:00.003+01:00

2010-10-08T13:26:00.003+01:00

Video 5 from my day job.

2010-09-10T20:55:00.000+01:00

Yet another day job video,

2010-09-10T18:03:00.002+01:00

My outrageously talented daughter provides the music,

Watercolour demo 3

2010-08-22T19:57:00.000+01:00

Yet another example of my day job.

Watercolour video 2

2010-08-22T19:55:00.000+01:00

This is an example of my day job.

Llanstephan Castle, oil on card 8 by 6 inches

2010-08-01T17:38:00.000+01:00

Towy Floods Oil on card 8 inches by 6 inches

2010-08-01T17:27:00.001+01:00

Watercolour video

2010-07-30T13:10:00.002+01:00

Towns best building, watercolour 12 by 8 inches, plein air and studio.

2010-07-18T19:48:00.000+01:00

From Dryslwyn Castle 24 by 15 inches watercolour and mixed media

2010-06-28T20:38:00.000+01:00

This is my first successful plein air effort in years, hopefully will provide the template for further efforts. I used to get so much from plein air painting, hope to return to it.

Bathroom

2010-05-06T20:58:00.003+01:00

Another gloomy moody offhand oblique painting.

New Blog

2010-04-23T20:59:00.001+01:00

I have a new blog "Frank Art" at http://frankartllandeilo.blogspot.com/ ,with some local collaborators. We set ourselves challenges every fortnight, hence the Pope image which came under the challenge: "Icon Satire" its a digital image:

Apologies, apologies. Rationale was the Catholic church has a long history of financial acumen, selling credits from purgatory , selling plastic glow in the dark Madonna's, charging to see icons etc. So this is a bit of contemporary merchandising, again sorry....

Gap, Oil on Board 18 by 12 inches.

2010-04-16T20:50:00.000+01:00

Ice ponds

2010-01-31T18:00:00.001Z

16 by 12 inches, oil on board.

Snow Moreb Meadow

2010-01-21T14:30:00.002Z

Oil on Artboard 17 by 11 inches

Snow Treepond

2010-01-21T14:27:00.000Z

Oil on Card 15 by 11 inches

Dinefwr Castle Snow

2010-01-21T14:25:00.002Z

Snow Dinefwr Mill 20 by 16 inches oil on canvas

2010-01-21T13:44:00.004Z

Stone Bridge Llandeilo Snow

2010-01-11T20:26:00.000Z

Windows 2

2009-12-13T17:01:00.001Z

Glitter and Doom.

2009-12-13T16:56:00.003Z

Up until the early sixties this door in a residential terrace was the unlikely entrance to the local cinema.

Something beyond the Mini Roundabout 2

2009-11-28T19:45:00.002Z

Sea Mist

2009-11-28T18:50:00.004Z

Llansteffan sea mist and sun.

2009-11-28T18:33:00.001Z

The trees will get you in the end.

2009-11-28T18:21:00.000Z

Something beyond the Mini Roundabout.

2009-11-21T12:00:00.003Z

Have changed the crop of this painting as I think it looked too symmetrical, too conventional and picturesque, prefer the off balance feel of this.

Firework smoke

2009-11-10T13:43:00.000Z

50s optimism

2009-10-17T17:51:00.002+01:00

Nightfall digests the landscape.

2009-10-17T17:29:00.004+01:00

Small town station.

2009-10-09T12:07:00.002+01:00

Garage edge

2009-10-04T19:39:00.000+01:00

Romance of Travel 2

2009-10-04T19:37:00.000+01:00

Flat Calm.

2009-10-03T18:10:00.001+01:00

Chips and icecream.

2009-09-21T18:26:00.002+01:00

Distant Clouds

2009-09-21T18:02:00.003+01:00

Entertainment Pavilion

2009-09-21T17:40:00.003+01:00

The Romance of Travel

2009-09-19T10:51:00.003+01:00

Ok title is semi ironic, but then I think there is a romance even in motorways.

Sunset town

2009-09-10T20:50:00.002+01:00

This was a real pain to reproduce, tried scanning it, lots of reflections, tried photography ,low lights 3 seconds exposure, still reflections, maybe cos the whole tone is quite dark

Ravens

2009-08-19T20:40:00.002+01:00

Empty bays

2009-08-14T20:16:00.001+01:00

Last House

2009-07-29T09:43:00.001+01:00

Toy Landscape

2009-07-16T21:09:00.003+01:00

Pass this view regularly in the car, it has the air of artificiality that you would find in a kids improbable arrangements of toys: the barn is on a nice little hill (why?), the track curves picturesquely, but pointlessly, oh and the sun makes it look improbably ideal.

July

2009-07-02T14:36:00.000+01:00

Windy Hills

2009-07-02T14:34:00.002+01:00

Still life

2009-06-30T21:03:00.000+01:00

In Passing

2009-06-30T20:58:00.000+01:00

Harbour edge

2009-05-07T14:08:00.005+01:00

I am saying nothing.

Tree shadow

2009-05-04T20:10:00.002+01:00

Its amazing what you notice once the image is scanned and appears on the screen. This again has been cropped, a lot, and flipped horizontally. Don't know why flipping it improves it, maybe because we read left to right, would other cultures judge the flip differently? Maybe I shouldn't try to explain what I was trying to do, it reduces it all to a recipe, its the taste I want to convey.
Well its a sort of bored Sunday afternoon thing, living next to a road where, nothing ever happens and you are prepared to look for meaning in anything, even a car that drives past and the sound fades slowly to nothing. Sounds really boring put like that, but I think there is a kind of intensity to extreme non events.................time for my medication.

Gower Stones

2009-04-25T10:15:00.002+01:00

A row of random stones in early evening, a bit of exposed soil, and a building lurking in the background.

Beach corner

2009-04-24T14:20:00.001+01:00

Ok this is awfully similar to "Aberystwyth" painting below, but I like this sort of thing.

Slipway

2009-04-24T14:15:00.003+01:00

This started off as a spatial thing, then became a textural thing, then with cropping has become a spatial and textural thing. The textures dont read very well at small scale.

Grey wall.

2009-01-31T17:04:00.005Z

This painting is far too wholesome to be enjoyed, its the equivalent of organic brown rice, mixed with sawdust for extra roughage.
Oil on card 10 by 6 inches.

Moon valley

2009-01-31T11:14:00.004Z

Sort of the view from my bedroom, but again this has been cropped and messed around with after the paint has dried. One day I hope to establish compositions before I start painting.

Aberystwyth Prom.

2009-01-18T19:55:00.005Z

Low sun, warm light, dark shadows, yes its a Hopper but on a very bad day, Aberystwyth is a small holiday/university town on the far edge of wales. This Hopperesque portrayal is kind of really apt as Aberystwyth is the setting for a series of fabulous 1950s style gangster/detective novels by Malcolm Pryce "Framed in the structure of a hardboiled private detective crime novel, with Aberystwyth evocatively replacing Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles". Titles include "Aberystwyth Mon Amor", "The unbearable lightness of being in Aberystwyth", Last Tango in Aberystwyth" you get the idea.

Carys, Oil on Card A3.

2009-01-08T20:17:00.004Z

Carys my luvly daughter, shes probably going to be a better painter than me. And a better speller.

Aberystwyth Pier Starlings roosting.Oil A4.

2009-01-08T20:12:00.003Z

I Have cropped this one again, its more about the fizzy texture the flock against the silky soft waves, its more as intended originally. Might paint this again, more flock required.

Whicker Chair Watercolur A3

2009-01-08T20:02:00.003Z

2009-01-08T19:44:00.003Z

Dinefwr Castle, Watercolour, A3 size.

2009-01-08T19:34:00.003Z

Historic Welsh castle, taken over by the Normans, then the Welsh a few times, home of the Lord Rhys, founder of the first Eisteddfod (Cultural competition), its a couple of miles from my house.

2009-01-08T18:20:00.006Z

Sunset Chimneys

2008-12-18T20:57:00.003Z

Oil on card 7 inches by 4 inches.
Liked the idea that the main charachters onstage, ie the three smokes, are formed and moved by invisible external forces, so this is geting to be a painting about invisible subject matter.

Door Shadow

2008-12-08T14:30:00.005Z

This is an attempt to use an even more limited palette, on pretty minimalist subject matter.

Stairs Light, oil on card 4inches by 3 inches.

2008-11-27T20:25:00.004Z

Similar pallette to last, I liked the

ordinary mundane nature of the subject matter.

Porch Light, oil on card 3inches by 7 inches.

2008-11-27T20:19:00.002Z

Well this was an attempt at using a more limited pallette, including black. Again title actor is offstage.

Farmyard edge 1

2008-11-17T20:40:00.001Z

This picture is not quite finished.

Farmyard edge 2

2008-11-17T20:33:00.000Z

Another painting about a cusp space.

2008-11-17T20:24:00.000Z

This hill just seemed to rise and rise into the

sky.

2008-11-17T20:22:00.000Z

Hot boring mindnumbing, hence I paint it.

Morning Crows

2008-11-17T20:16:00.000Z

Morning Crows, just what was I thinking.

Dryslwyn garage

2008-11-17T20:13:00.000Z

Disused garage in sunset.

Llandeilo station

2008-11-17T20:06:00.000Z

Edge of Town 4

2008-10-27T20:27:00.001Z

This is more of a sketch on the theme.

2008-10-26T18:51:00.000Z

This is the third "edge of town"painting, the darks have been inhanced digitally, original is oil on card.