Visions are seldom all they seem Painting

Jones' work explores the materiality of paint in relation to memory, primarily utilising cinematic source imagery of 90s romantic comedies and cult classics as a means to address the intangible nature of nostalgia through the constructs of film and painting. Impersonal and personal all at once, they allude to fragmented space whilst conjuring an internalised or other world. Her longstanding exploration of the materiality of paint in relation to memory continues in this work, harnessing aspects of surface detail as a painterly vehicle to grasp at the intangible. This painting draws on themes of love and romance with a sense of dreamlike recollection and alluding to rose-tinted memories. The figures are based from an amalgamation of old Hollywood movies, intimate, caught in a dance. The lips, an anchor point in many of Jones' paintings, hold the eye, draw the viewer into their embrace. This painting also a pioneering work in regards to layering imagery, and exploring the liminal line between worlds and time that peppers her most recent works - it is almost as though Jones has been trimming film collaged the embrace from a variety of places and pulled them together. This painting is on clayboard and is displayed on a French cleat.