Shaelagh Jones
Acrylic and mixed media
Shaelagh is an acrylic and mixed media artist. She enjoys the use of bright colour, dribbles, washes and glazes to get the effects she wants. Plants and the life bursting within nature are her inspirations and juxta positioning of something realistic alongside a more abstract effect is what interests her. She enjoys the process of making differences work together on the canvas.
Historically she trained in horticulture and worked as a landscape designer for 10 years in Auckland and Wellington. She described the plants as her paint and the land as the canvas. Plant forms, textures and colour are important in a garden, and she feels just as important in a painting.
In 2001 she moved to Paris where art surrounded her daily from the stunning architecture, extensive art galleries, and museums to the everyday shop windows. She says that “living there was her greatest art education”. Ironically though, it wasn’t a natural world but the principles of putting things together to make something beautiful was innate there.
Returning to New Zealand she began painting and her work slowly developed over time. Creative Northland helped her with her first two exhibitions, and she has gone on to exhibit at Reyburn house, South seas art and Helena Bay gallery.
Presently Shaelagh serves on the Reyburn House Governance committee. Ongoing education in art techniques is important for her and she enjoys classes at the quarry arts centre, online courses and various painting and sketching groups. Her studio can be found at 55 Russell Road, Kensington, Whangarei. She also teaches in her studio and loves to paint there with other people. She can be contacted on 0273537313. She works from her studio most days and is happy to meet with anyone interested in her art.
W shaelaghjonesart.co.nz
E [email protected]
also on Facebook and Instagram
Shaelagh is an acrylic and mixed media artist. She enjoys the use of bright colour, dribbles, washes and glazes to get the effects she wants. Plants and the life bursting within nature are her inspirations and juxta positioning of something realistic alongside a more abstract effect is what interests her. She enjoys the process of making differences work together on the canvas.
Historically she trained in horticulture and worked as a landscape designer for 10 years in Auckland and Wellington. She described the plants as her paint and the land as the canvas. Plant forms, textures and colour are important in a garden, and she feels just as important in a painting.
In 2001 she moved to Paris where art surrounded her daily from the stunning architecture, extensive art galleries, and museums to the everyday shop windows. She says that “living there was her greatest art education”. Ironically though, it wasn’t a natural world but the principles of putting things together to make something beautiful was innate there.
Returning to New Zealand she began painting and her work slowly developed over time. Creative Northland helped her with her first two exhibitions, and she has gone on to exhibit at Reyburn house, South seas art and Helena Bay gallery.
Presently Shaelagh serves on the Reyburn House Governance committee. Ongoing education in art techniques is important for her and she enjoys classes at the quarry arts centre, online courses and various painting and sketching groups. Her studio can be found at 55 Russell Road, Kensington, Whangarei. She also teaches in her studio and loves to paint there with other people. She can be contacted on 0273537313. She works from her studio most days and is happy to meet with anyone interested in her art.
W shaelaghjonesart.co.nz
E [email protected]
also on Facebook and Instagram
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