Henry Jones: A Reflection
2nd March to 11th April
Open eve 10th March 7-9pm
‘A Reflection’ poses a compelling challenge for watercolour, how to depict the many types of mirror image of lake, puddle, window or the reaction to an event, a reflection in a different way, in a medium which very much likes to behave in its own way.
Over the past few years, since turning his artistic efforts towards painting in watercolour, Henry has encountered success and failure in unequal measure, success, by his own reckoning to have outweighed the failures. In spite of its apparent simplicity, watercolour is a difficult medium In which to become competent and extremely so to master, requiring many thousands of hours with brush and paint. Henry’s recent attendance at a number of demonstrations and masterclasses have once again given a rise to a plateau of progress, learning techniques from expert painters on how to keep the colours luminous and the painting alive. This advice has stuck, being drawn upon whenever he’s in the studio or outside painting from life, inspiration drawn from the mundane to the magnificent. Everything is a potential subject, noted in the many sketchbooks lining the shelves in his self-built studio, an archive depicting years of travel around the world. Henry’s current interest in reflection poses a compelling challenge for watercolour, how to depict the many types of mirror image of lake, puddle, window or the reaction to an event, a reflection in a different way, in a medium which very much likes to behave in its own way.