Katherine Jones – Gently Scalloped Edge

Gently Scalloped Edge presents us with an abstraction of clouds and scallop shells. Jones sees an optimism in a scalloped edge, a promise, like bulging pea pods, or something being ripe and ready. More welcoming than its inverse, pointed and drawn in, ribs showing a lack rather than a bounty. The plates for Gently Scalloped Edge were made from sand and paper. The image is translated into texture and tone from initial watercolour sketches.

Katherine Jones brings together disparate narratives in hyper-real or folkloric spaces. Perceptions of safety and danger are often presented using archetypal motifs such as a house, flower, sun or tree. She combines traditional and experimental printmaking techniques exemplified by the humble card she uses for her collagraph plates. Her ideas are often exchanged between watercolours, oil painting and printmaking, here a luminous magic is manifested with her use of colour and painterly marks.

Collections include: (UK) The Victoria and Albert Museum; National Art Library; University College, London; Hospitals Art Collection; Government Art Collection; Royal Festival Hall; Winchester College; Eton College; Ashmolean Museum; University of Chichester Art Collection; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; 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; (CN) Guangdong Museum. In 2022 Katherine Jones was elected as a Royal Academician in 2022