Abstracts

“I was extremely influenced in my own work by modernism. As a young man at the Slade and in Argentina I thrashed about a lot and was very much in the pervasive shadow of Picasso, stylising in a late Cubist way; I lectured about Abstract Expressionism in 1958 and painted abstracts a la Nicholas de Stael, probably because they were easy, and later I made some neo-Dada objects which were as enigmatic as I could devise. I’ve always felt free to be artistically promiscuous.”

– John Jones

Pink and orange, oil on board, 91 x 122cm

To boldly go, metal relief, private collection

What should a child do..., oil on canvas, 79 x 120cm

Silver and gold, oil on board and mixed media, 183 x 122cm

Rectangles, oil on board, 73 x 93.5cm

Thursday's Child, oil on canvas, 103 x 72.5cm

Old money, mixed media, 48 x 70cm

Night scene, oil on board, 41 x 48cm

Cityscape, oil on canvas, 1959-60, 85 x 118cm

Cityscape (blue and orange), oil on canvas, 119 x 87cm

White, oil on board, 91 x 122cm

Target, mixed media, 41 x 92cm

Black and orange, 91 x 122cm

In the frame, mixed media on board, 42 x 60.5cm

Plimsoll line, mixed media on wood, 39 x 89.5cm

Dream, 1961, mixed media, 98.5 x 20.5cm

Townscape, ink, wax, watercolour on paper

Moonlit city, metal relief, private collection

Face sculpture, wooden offcuts, 28 x 38cm