DUST TO PIGMENT
For the past year Jones has visited the Chelsea Physic Garden to regularly draw alongside a group of artists from the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. Until the 1970s these gardens were a living classroom to train apothecaries in the use of plants and their medicinal uses. Today the garden also hosts weddings and parties and Jones has documented the changing marquee shapes and structures as they are put up and taken down alongside the plants.
Meryl Ainslie, Rabley Gallery
He seemed to think it too good for common purposes: it was the real sunshine of feeling—he shed it over me now. “Pass, Janet,” said he, making room for me to cross the stile: “go up home, and stay your weary little wandering feet at a friend’s threshold.” “Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness.
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:
Katherine Jones two new, larger than life collagraphs Narcissus and Narcissus Echo focus on a narcissus flower or something resembling the trumpet and petals of the daffodil. Basking in the luminous glow of their own reflections they play with the narrative of the Greek God Narcissus and the Goddess Echo who was infatuated with him.
Meryl Ainslie director Rabley Gallery