Royal Gazette: Close to Home: Jonah puts his somerset backyard on show
With Close to Home, Jonah Jones shows where his focus has been in the three years since his art was last on display. It’s easy to understand why. A walk through his backyard is a tour of endemic and native trees, interesting foliage and an ongoing parade of birds. Should he want to switch things up, there is the ever-changing brilliance of King’s Point.
“I’ve called it Close to Home because, increasingly, as I’ve got older, I’ve been painting more and more around my environment here,” the artist said.
“We’ve been living in Somerset now for, I think 20-odd of the 35 years we’ve lived on the island and we ended up buying a house right up in Somerset, with some lovely land around it. It’s become a real creative space for me and that’s what’s coming out in the art.”
Close to Home will have about 80 paintings when it opens on Friday in the main gallery at Bermuda Society of Arts.
The odd picture out is another favoured location of Mr Jones, Flatts Inlet.
“All the other work is within a stone’s throw of where I live.”
With nearly four decades of art behind him the artist decided to include as part of his solo exhibit, a timeline of his work.
It will run in the Edinburgh Gallery at BSoA, as an accompaniment to Close to Home. The pieces are not for sale, some were borrowed from the people who bought them.