Aneurin M. Jones (1930 – 25 September 2017) was a
Welsh
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painter.
Life and work
Jones was born in
Cwm Wysg on the
Brecknockshire
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Carmarthenshire border to a farmer's family. He studied Fine Art at Swansea College of Art from 1950 to 1955. He then worked as a teacher at
Ysgol y Preseli
Ysgol Bro Preseli is a Wales, Welsh 3-18 school in the village of Crymych, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
History
Prior to the school's opening, pupils from the villages in the north of the county that passed the eleven-plus exam attended schools in eith ...
,
Crymych (becoming Head of Art) until 1986.
In 1978 Jones received a Rotary Award for outstanding service to Art. He exhibited regularly at the
National Eisteddfod of Wales
The National Eisteddfod of Wales (Welsh language, Welsh: ') is the largest of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales. Its eight days of competitions and performances are considered the largest music and poetry festival in Eur ...
and won the main art prize there in 1981.
Jones paintings often dwell on the old ways of life in the
Wales countryside, sometimes making sketches at farm sales (where unwanted farm equipment ius sold off). He compared his life to that of a farmer, saying "An artist ploughs their own furrow; painting is very personal in terms of the pattern, the shape and the mood it creates."
In 2013 a Jones painting of
Welsh cobs was presented to
Charles, Prince of Wales at the
Royal Welsh Show.
His paintings are in the public collections of the
National Library of Wales
The National Library of Wales ( cy, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales and is one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies. It is the biggest library in Wales, holding over 6.5 million boo ...
,
Ceredigion Museum and
MOMA Wales as well as collections overseas.
His son, Meirion Jones, is a well-known painter too.
References
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1930 births
2017 deaths
20th-century Welsh painters
20th-century Welsh male artists
21st-century Welsh painters
21st-century Welsh male artists
People from Brecknockshire
Welsh male painters