David H Jones studied Fine Art Painting at the West of England College of Art, Bristol. His Tutors included Paul Feiler, Alfred Stockham, and visiting tutor Terry Frost. David’s roots are in Merseyside, where he studied Art Foundation at Wallasey School of Art. He lives and works in Lambourn with a studio overlooking the Lambourn Downs. After art school David moved to rural Berkshire where he established a paintwork restoration business, married and raised three children. In 1986 he began teaching adult studies courses : painting and life drawing. This brought him back to his own painting interests, with an emphasis on the observation of landscape and figure. In 2000 he ceased teaching and set up a large studio space at a nearby farm, which gave him the space to make larger work and return to his earlier interest in abstraction. Influences have come from many sources and his work is informed by travels in Europe India and North Africa. For twenty years he visited the Greek Ionian Islands of Corfu and Paxos. On Paxos he would spend time in the olive groves on Mamari Beach painting watercolours of the shifting light that illuminated the trees. The woodland and olive grove studies had a significant input into his later work. “When I sit challenged to capture the essence of what I see in all its chaotic complexity I can only do it by simplifying it into patterns of colour and tone. When I work in the studio on abstract painting In a way I am concerned with the same process.”