Biography
Philip Jones (b. London 1933 - d. 2008) was educated at Malvern College, where he was taught art by Henry Fabian Ware, and then studying it at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1953–6. He mainly painted landscapes of Malta, Sardinia and Norfolk and where he lived at Little Cressingham but gradually became more abstract. He showed with RA Summer Exhibitions; Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, 1954; Artists of Fame and Promise, Leicester Galleries, 1955–6; AIA Gallery from 1964; Norwich Group Show, Castle Museum in Norwich, 1978; Chicago International Art Exposition, America, 1988–90; and Eastern Arts Open, King’s Lynn, where he was the winner of Best Painting and Best in Show awards in 1993.
Jones had a solo show at Galerie Bleu, Stockholm, 1965; Maddermarket Theatre Gallery, Norwich, from 1978; Louise Hallett Gallery, from 1986; Vanessa Devereux Gallery, 1990; a retrospective at Malvern College, 1991; Michael Parkin Gallery, 1994; Ainscough Contemporary, 1995 and 1997; Ainscough Gallery, Liverpool, 1999; and Oliver Contemporary, 2003.
