Rebecca Jones

“It makes me happy”. This is the comment Rebecca Grace Jones most often hears about her work.

Rebecca was born and raised in western Maryland, the youngest in a family of artists.

She created her first book of illustrated poetry in the second grade. She received an MFA from Towson Universityand was a senior lecturer in the art department of her alma mater for twelve years. She enjoyed a lucrative career as a freelance graphic artist, winning numerous awards and having her work included in the Society of Illustrators annual volume.

.Decades into her career, as many commercial artists do, she made the decision to do her own thing and started painting. Working in acrylics with added media, she quickly found her own voice in a style a friend called “seriously whimsical”.

Influenced by the country setting of her home in West Virginia, Rebecca’s canvases depict scenes of peace and charm. She says of her work, “I have a few different approaches when I start my paintings. Sometimes I start with a layer of gesso to which I add texture before it dries. Other pieces start as a design of shapes in neutral tones. In both cases, the second step is to paint an additional, translucent layer which allows either the texture or the shapes to show through. I let these features suggest details that I enhance and develop into a composition. The result usually refers to a landscape of sorts, populated with what I’ve come to see as my iconography of architectural and organic symbols.”