Joy Farrall Jones ( Joyce Margaret Mellor; born 1933) is a British painter and illustrator.

Biography

Jones was born in

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in India and studied art at the Regional College of Art in Manchester from 1954 to 1957 and then at

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in London for a further two years. Jones lectured at the Marylebone Institute in London and during the 1960s, as a freelance artist, produced illustrations for the Cambridge Schools Classics Project, the

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, the book publishers

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and Arnold Publishers. Jones moved to Wales sometime around 1967 and undertook illustration work for the Nature Conservancy Council, the Overton Trust Fund, the Welsh Schools Council and the

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throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Aside from her illustration work, Jones has produced paintings of flowers and animals, portraits in miniature and still life works, often in tempera. Since 1997 Jones has been a member of the

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and taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including a two-person exhibition at the

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. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at the

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in London, in Rhyl, at the Tegfryn Art Gallery and in Canada. Her work was influenced by several visits to India and the Indian Army holds portraits by her.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Joy Farrall 1933 births Living people 20th-century British women artists 21st-century British women artists Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art People from Bangalore