Framed With Care - Art Gallery and Picture Framing Workshop

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Hayley Jones

 
I have just completed my degree in Fine and Applied Art at the University of Ulster. Over the past five years, I have developed interests in printed and dyed textiles, although from a young age I have felt a natural urge to paint. It is this inherent feeling that draws me to pick up a paint brush or a sponge or what ever I can make a mark with and paint.

Throughout school I was taught how to paint a perfect resemblance of people, as I have grown up, both in painting and in life, I realise that it is not the exact replication of a person or picture that makes a painting; it is finding an inner quality and allowing it to shine through.

I paint loose representations of people, an outline, a shape, a colour, to portray the essence of the person beneath the skin. The paintings I produce are rarely perfect; it is their imperfections and unfinishedness that make them what they are. A feeling or thought captured on paper.

I am drawn to the natural form, humanity at its most simple. I find the female form particularly fascinating to paint, no straight lines, rarely perfect, yet still beautiful.

In 2009 I was honoured to have my work hung in the Ulster Hall as part of International Women’s week.