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Artist Val Jones

Her work expresses the vastness of the skies
and our human vulnerability

Val Jones was brought up on a council estate in the West Midlands. Her father worked in a car factory and her mother was a home help. As a child she was surrounded by wonderful people but her local environment depressed her. The flatness and soullessness of the urban landscape of Coventry led her to fantasize about the cloud formations she saw. She pretended they were mountains, seas, beaches or moorlands."

Val spent her career teaching art and design and brought up three children, but the development of her imagination and the influence of her early years looking up at the skies never really left her. Six years ago she became a full-time artist fulfilling a lifelong dream.

The sexy side of science, space exploration and DNA

Val also uses the media of printmaking: "Whilst I reflect elements of the landscape in my collagraphs and etchings, I’m also interested in the inner landscape of the body and have made collagraphs from my hair, nails and skin and most recently a pig’s brain! I love the sexy side of science, space exploration and DNA."

Val Jones' work encompasses three different media: oil paintings, printmaking and wax resist painting. More information can be found on www.valjones.co.uk

Exhibitions of Val Jones Work 69 Gallery, Totnes, Devon Tangerine Cafe, Totnes, Devon July 7th - August 4th Willows Restaurant, Totnes, Devon September 6th - 14th Devon Open Studios at Velwell House, Devon www.velwellhouse.co.uk October Town Hall, Bovey Tracey, Devon www.valjones.co.uk