'The Socially Distanced Woman'

For our inaugural exhibition we showcase the work of Jacqueline Janine Jones in a solo show.

The show will be open to the public from Friday 4th September to Saturday October 17th. We open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10.00am to 5.00pm.

Jacqueline is a painter from Porth near Tonypandy Rhonda Cynon Taf. Recently she exhibited with the Mall Galleries in London but is fairly well known in Wales as part of the Welsh Group and a member of the Stuckist Movement. Her work is exhibited internationally from America to Tehran. She describes her work as Figurative/ expressive but it is worth mentioning the Stuckist manifesto at this point where there is a quest for authenticity with uncensored expression. Stuckists promote the medium of self-discovery fully immerssed in the process of action, emotion, thought and vision. And a holistic approach where there is a meeting of the conscious and unconscious , thought and emotion, sprititual and material, Private and public.

There is certainly in no part naivity in Jaquelines work, but a serious quest to discover by the act of painting the real essence of her world within and without. Striking images stand out from the frame engaging her audience in recognition of subjects, familiarity of emotive forms that transcend our usual understanding of Art to another level of engagment.

Within the gallery you will find some of Jacquelines poetry which itself gives another way into the visual work leaving a truly individual approach that opens a dialogue on our own visual language and image based work.

She is inspired by the poetry and folklore of her native Wales and says :

“ My work is primarily figurative . Recently it has become more narrative and explores quirky places and legends. We are living in strange times and this has made me contemplate the role of the artist as outsider in isolation. The title of my show at Oriel Q Gallery is in response to this. My painting 'The Self-Isolating Woman' has many layers. The myriad layers of interpretation through both my eyes and my vision and those of others “