Katherine Jones RA – The Vanishing Land

The Vanishing Land, 2010 – a ghost-like house shape appears to float above the sea. It is one of a suite of four prints entitled ‘Inside is Dry Land’ made in response to reports of the effects of coastal erosion on coastlines bordering places such as Skipsea North Yorkshire where houses have collapsed along with the crumbling cliffs that supported them. As the sea steadily and continuously overtakes the land it throws up not only practical questions but also those of displacement and the fragility of belonging when the land which once underpinned the place an individual identifies as ‘home’ has disappeared.

These works began to trace a broad interest in the relationship between man and the changing environment which has continued to inform the artist’s work to date – the most recent of these iterations involving flora and fauna adapting to a warming world.

Katherine Jones makes distinctive images that are inhabited by plants, ordinary objects, spaces and buildings. Often the structures depicted are fragile or vulnerable, covered or transparent. Jones is a painter and a printmaker, her ideas are often exchanged between watercolour, etchings and collagraph prints. She builds layers, overlays marks and colour to create rich nuanced surfaces.

Her prints are included in major international collections including UK: The Victoria and Albert Museum; National Art library; The House of Lords; University College, London, Hospitals Art Collection; Government Art Collection; Royal Festival Hall; Winchester College; Eton College; Ashmolean Museum; University of Chichester Art Collection; University of Warwick Art Collection; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. USA: Lafayette College, Boston Athenaeum, Wellesley Library, Swathmore College, PA, Yale University Library, CT. United Therapeutics Art Collection. China: Guangdong Museum.

Jones was brought up in Herefordshire, she studied at Cambridge School of Art, and MA Fine Art Printmaking at Camberwell College of Art,(1998-2001). She currently lives and works in Brixton. South London.

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