About Terri Jones
Terri chairs the Henley Arts Trail each year & is taking part in exhibitions in Berkshire and London in 2010
Terri studied oil painting, portraiture and figurative painting at Heatherley's School of Art in Chelsea
Her painting was selected and exhibited at the Royal Academy's 154 Exhibition in 2006, and received the "Best Oil Painting" prize at the prestigious Chelsea Art Society Show in 2005
Commissions
The commission-based work that Terri has developed is in response to requests for help in finding "the right painting for the occasion & location"; something unique, symbolic of a time/place/emotion, that can be given with love and treasured thereafter.
She has a very collaborative way of working with clients on their commissions to ensure that they really do get what they want. Creating commissions for her is about understanding the client's vision of the piece of art and what that piece means to them, helping them develop their ideas for the design, and then creating a painting or drawing to deliver that vision and meaning. The satisfaction for Terri comes when we've finished the work and they say "Thankyou, that's wonderful, it's just how I imagined it to be, only better!".
Paintings & Drawings
Terri has been drawing and painting the world around her all her life. She reached a critical turning point in 1996 - the year she started at Heatherley's School of Art in Chelsea and learned to paint in oils, and the year she learned to dive.
Terri's artwork is neither wholly realistic nor imaginative, more a fusion of the two - as memory, research and imagination combine to generate each picture. Her love of painting in oils grew as a response to the richness and depth of colour they make possible.
Terri prefers not to provide an explanation of her work. She would rather leave viewers to make their own minds up about what they think about and take from her paintings.
