For a number of years my main focus has been seascapes. It is a personal challenge to be able to capture the sea, to create how it “feels”. Capturing one particular moment that will never come the same again is part of the “magic” that happens in painting such a subject. To paint impermanence into a permanent state requires control and freedom together. I have found that in creating something like the sea, it has to be felt as much as possible, to “touch” the reality with the chosen medium and shape it on the canvas. Of course, there are techniques that help in its creation, as in other areas such as the sky, mountains, trees, these techniques can be “born” from finding a way to represent and feel the subject matter, to treat it in a manner which suits the form, which is why experimentation and observation are so very important in discovering ways of best approaching a certain subject.
I consider myself to be very fortunate to have been “given” somehow this subject. It is such a beautiful subject to be a part of, and there are so many possibilities available to me. I remain thankful and grateful for all I have received, from everyone and everything involved.
(The following were prepared for catalogues from two solo exhibitions, one in Italy, the other Montenegro)
“In front of his painting of the sea you can absolutely contemplate for hours. Vernon doesn’t paint the sea, he reproduces it. All of his paintings are small projects about exploring the movements, the deepness, the density and the light of the waves.
In front of his pieces you must stand still in complete silence and then you can really hear the roaming of the sea. The sea is the ultimate inspiration which is in the centre of his artistic creation. The water is the element in constant movement and with constant rebirth. Sometimes is mute and deep as the human soul. Jones’ sea is vast as a mirror where we can observe our own reflection, our lives and existence. The sea narrates the human destiny and represents eternity.
On the canvas the waves are alive in desperate pursuit of tranquility. Jones’ art reflects freshness and obvious dedication to smallest details. His technique is precise and his artistic realism holds great respect toward the sea and its greatness. The respect toward the nature is “photographed” and is the core inspiration for the artist.
Vernon Jones’s art can be defined as hyper-realistic, even though this definition might be restraining, as the artist doesn’t wish to paint the spontaneous nature of the water and the waves. He wants to convey the utmost essence of the sea and its greatness”.
Alessandro Ikardi
“The system that Vernon Jones is establishng implies an inner editing of well deliberative sequences, which in turn makes the composition of the painting to affect us perfectly with a simple fiction – realism. These impressive paintings of assigned matine extracts are set with one common plan like a part of the everlasting, like days that are threaded with his positive and negative tangible and untouchable views. The topics which take a place in Jones’ paintings are according to one precise, well deliberative and developed system and plan of the Author, into a sublimate of a dialogue between the measures and the relations.
I have an impression that the Author has set up a goal:, to span and visually realize a true reality, which exista outside of the painting, and afterwards to paint on the surface of the canvas sequences of the realworld placed by personal exegeses of reality. However they are expressed through the subjective filter from the Artist, Vernon’s paintings are representing that reality of one possible sequence; painting, performance and the impression of the real world. Here the Author is just subtly selecting these vital moments which are very important for the stuff of existence.
Vernon Jones’ paintings seek out one positive world, secret landscapes lightened by the short flare of the sun and thunderbolts, and that exist somewhere deep inside us and around us, where ruling laws are different.
The work of Jones besides all of the clarity of the composition are quiet and unassuming (like the temperament of the waters surface), a spotless lyricism through fine art, recording the fragments of time in which we live.
Ljupcho Stojanovski
Translated by Maria Nastevska (from Macedonian to English)
Vernon Jones the Artist and his Artwork
Artist Statement: -
For a number of years my main focus has been seascapes. It is a personal challenge to be able to capture the sea, to create how it “feels”. Capturing one particular moment that will never come the same again is part of the “magic” that happens in painting such a subject. To paint impermanence into a permanent state requires control and freedom together. I have found that in creating something like the sea, it has to be felt as much as possible, to “touch” the reality with the chosen medium and shape it on the canvas. Of course, there are techniques that help in its creation, as in other areas such as the sky, mountains, trees, these techniques can be “born” from finding a way to represent and feel the subject matter, to treat it in a manner which suits the form, which is why experimentation and observation are so very important in discovering ways of best approaching a certain subject.
I consider myself to be very fortunate to have been “given” somehow this subject. It is such a beautiful subject to be a part of, and there are so many possibilities available to me. I remain thankful and grateful for all I have received, from everyone and everything involved.
(The following were prepared for catalogues from two solo exhibitions, one in Italy, the other Montenegro)
“In front of his painting of the sea you can absolutely contemplate for hours. Vernon doesn’t paint the sea, he reproduces it. All of his paintings are small projects about exploring the movements, the deepness, the density and the light of the waves.
In front of his pieces you must stand still in complete silence and then you can really hear the roaming of the sea. The sea is the ultimate inspiration which is in the centre of his artistic creation. The water is the element in constant movement and with constant rebirth. Sometimes is mute and deep as the human soul. Jones’ sea is vast as a mirror where we can observe our own reflection, our lives and existence. The sea narrates the human destiny and represents eternity.
On the canvas the waves are alive in desperate pursuit of tranquility. Jones’ art reflects freshness and obvious dedication to smallest details. His technique is precise and his artistic realism holds great respect toward the sea and its greatness. The respect toward the nature is “photographed” and is the core inspiration for the artist.
Vernon Jones’s art can be defined as hyper-realistic, even though this definition might be restraining, as the artist doesn’t wish to paint the spontaneous nature of the water and the waves. He wants to convey the utmost essence of the sea and its greatness”.
Alessandro Ikardi
“The system that Vernon Jones is establishng implies an inner editing of well deliberative sequences, which in turn makes the composition of the painting to affect us perfectly with a simple fiction – realism. These impressive paintings of assigned matine extracts are set with one common plan like a part of the everlasting, like days that are threaded with his positive and negative tangible and untouchable views. The topics which take a place in Jones’ paintings are according to one precise, well deliberative and developed system and plan of the Author, into a sublimate of a dialogue between the measures and the relations.
I have an impression that the Author has set up a goal:, to span and visually realize a true reality, which exista outside of the painting, and afterwards to paint on the surface of the canvas sequences of the realworld placed by personal exegeses of reality. However they are expressed through the subjective filter from the Artist, Vernon’s paintings are representing that reality of one possible sequence; painting, performance and the impression of the real world. Here the Author is just subtly selecting these vital moments which are very important for the stuff of existence.
Vernon Jones’ paintings seek out one positive world, secret landscapes lightened by the short flare of the sun and thunderbolts, and that exist somewhere deep inside us and around us, where ruling laws are different.
The work of Jones besides all of the clarity of the composition are quiet and unassuming (like the temperament of the waters surface), a spotless lyricism through fine art, recording the fragments of time in which we live.
Ljupcho Stojanovski
Translated by Maria Nastevska (from Macedonian to English)