Sal Jones

Working primarily with oil paint on canvas Sal’s fascination with painting focuses on our relationship with representation; particularly with regard to human expression and communication. Her emotionally charged paintings, portraying, primarily, fictional subjects, capture the action of expression out of context whilst transforming the stereotypical portrait. Using subjects that she has sourced from cinema, the media and her own photography she creates works that explore human reaction and empathy on a personal level. Her work investigates our love of the dramatic, focusing on scenes of questioning, love, betrayal, and power-play; along with titles originating from dialogue, they invite the viewer to share and empathise with this inner world of familiar strangers.
The painted surface draws attention to the process of painting and to the artist’s choices in transforming the photographic source image.

Sal has a BA Hons in Fine Art and a PGCE in Art & Design, she lives and works in London.
Sal has over 20 years of experience working in the education sector teaching and undertaking art residencies and is currently a freelance Artist, Museum educator, tutor and exam board Assessment Associate.
Sal has exhibited widely in London a...

BA Hons Fine Art degree and a PGCE in Art & Design.

Selected Exhibitions
2023
Scandal '63 Revisited, De Montfort University Gallery, Leicester
2022
Fenella Fielding: Actress, Gallery 286, London
Wales Contemporary, Waterfront Gallery, Pembrokeshire and Gallery@Oxo London
British Painting III, Bermondsey Project Space, London
Royal Cambrian Academy Open exhibition, Conwy, Wales
2021
No Time Like The Present. Solo Show, Hampstead, London
Bath Society of Artists 116th open exhibition, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
Set In Stone, 44AD gallery, Bath
2020
ING Discerning Eye, annual Open exhibition, invited artist
Bath Society of Artists, 115th exhibition open exhibition
Society of Women Artists, 159th Annual open exhibition
RBSA open exhibition, RBSA gallery, Birmingham
#FakeNews, Artcan exhibition, Offshoot gallery, London
Dear Christine, touring exhibition, Arthouse 1, London
Feren's Open Exhibition, Feren's gallery, Hull
​2019
Dear Christine, touring exhibition, Vane Gallery, Newcastle & Elysium, Swansea (tours to London feb 2020)
Inaugural show, Emerge Contemporary, Highgate contemporary Art, London
Death of Art, Stash gallery, London
Bath Society of Artists, Open exhibition, Victoria Art gallery, Bath
​Take Back Control, Crypt Gallery, Kings Cross
Nude & Fully Clothed, Nude Tin Can Galle...