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Jack Jones was celebrated in his lifetime for depicting with directness the working-class community of his childhood in pre-war Swansea. He found a ‘child-like’ style of painting that echoed several other twentieth-century artists, including Alfred Wallis, Ben Nicholson and L. S. Lowry, all now recognised as major figures. Jones was self-taught in painting but highly educated in literature. He and his French wife Huguette made their home in London, where he taught English. Their friends included Anthony Hopkins, John Ormond and Kyffin Williams. He started painting in his early thirties, when he published his biography of his hero, Van Gogh.

The streets of Hafod, between the copper works and its waste tips, were his inspiration. ‘In spite of the poverty and the ill-health’, he wrote, ‘there was a bubbling effervescence in the Hafod people.’ He showed chapels, pubs and houses shorn to their essentials. The heap of slag really did curve like a black whale above the houses but he would add a storey to a pub to emphasise its status or move buildings where he wanted them. He wandered up to Landore, down to the great town chapels, or occasionally to the mills of Yorkshire or the streets of Paris.

Jack Jones left teaching early and returned to Swansea, giving all his time to painting for his last twenty years. He died in 1993, just as a major exhibition opened at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. His papers and a fine selection of his paintings are in the National Library of Wales.

Dr. Peter Wakelin

This is a rare opportunity to see a substantial body of work by this wonderful Welsh artist. There are more than thirty works in the exhibition, all of which are for sale. 

  • Mount Pleasant Baptist Church - Jack Jones
  • Crossing the Road - Jack Jones
  • 26 Rue de Vinaigriers, Paris - Jack Jones
  • Zoar, Pub, Houses and Slag-Heap - Jack Jones
  • Houses and Mills, Dewsbury - Jack Jones
  • Terrace with Train on a Viaduct - Jack Jones
  • Greenhill - Jack Jones
  • Street Scene with Figures - Jack Jones
  • Street Scene, Wales - Jack Jones
  • People in the Street and Telegraph Pole - Jack Jones
  • Queuing I - Jack Jones
  • Little Chapel - Jack Jones
  • Queuing II - Jack Jones
  • Hafod Tip and Houses - Jack Jones
  • Terrace, Tip and Figures - Jack Jones
  • Croft Street - Jack Jones
  • Self Portrait as a Young Man - Jack Jones
  • Prop Forward - Jack Jones
  • Red House and Green Chapel - Jack Jones
  • Chapel - Night - Jack Jones
  • Welsh Terrace - Jack Jones
  • Corner Shop - Jack Jones
  • Two Brothers - Jack Jones
  • Four People and a Dog in the Street  - Jack Jones
  • Prince of Wales Pub - Jack Jones
  • Rugby - Jack Jones
  • Front Row - Jack Jones
  • Zion - Jack Jones
  • White House - Jack Jones
  • Chapel Zion - Jack Jones
  • Straight Street - Jack Jones
  • Street People - Jack Jones
  • Figures in a Landscape - Jack Jones
  • Ebenezer Baptist Chapel - Jack Jones
  • Jack Jones Centenary Exhibition 1 - Jack Jones
  • Jack Jones Centenary Exhibition 2 - Jack Jones
  • Jack Jones Centenary Exhibition 3 - Jack Jones
  • Jack Jones Centenary Exhibition 4 - Jack Jones
  • Jack Jones Centenary Exhibition 5 - Jack Jones
  • Jack Jones Centenary Exhibition 6 - Jack Jones
  • Jack Jones Centenary Exhibition 7 - Jack Jones
  • Jack Jones Centenary Exhibition 8 - Jack Jones
  • Jack Jones Centenary Exhibition 9 - Jack Jones
  • Jack Jones Centenary Exhibition 10 - Jack Jones
  • Jack Jones Centenary Exhibition 11 - Jack Jones
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