David H Jones DipAD (Fine Art)

David H Jones’ paintings explore the nourishing and energising properties of colour. His repetitive application of mark making and washes create textured surfaces with a depth and richness of colour to lift your spirits. His inspiration comes from nature's palette, with observations of colour contrasts as the seasons change.


David studied Fine Art Painting at the West of England College of Art, Bristol. His Tutors included Paul Feiler, David Inshaw, Alfred Stockham, Hassel Smith and visiting tutor Terry Frost. David’s roots are in Merseyside, where he studied Art Foundation at Wallasey School of Art. He lives and works in Lambourn with a studio overlooking the Lambourn Downs.

David grew up on the Wirral and spent his childhood exploring the countryside, fascinated by nature and closely observing pond life and birds Although as a child he also loved painting, his first ambition was to be an ornithologist. but in his early teens he visited the Walker Art Gallery

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David H Jones’ paintings explore the nourishing and energising properties of colour. His repetitive application of mark making and washes create textured surfaces with a depth and richness of colour to lift your spirits. His inspiration comes from nature's palette, with observations of colour contrasts as the seasons change.


David studied Fine Art Painting at the West of England College of Art, Bristol. His Tutors included Paul Feiler, David Inshaw, Alfred Stockham, Hassel Smith and visiting tutor Terry Frost. David’s roots are in Merseyside, where he studied Art Foundation at Wallasey School of Art. He lives and works in Lambourn with a studio overlooking the Lambourn Downs.

David grew up on the Wirral and spent his childhood exploring the countryside, fascinated by nature and closely observing pond life and birds Although as a child he also loved painting, his first ambition was to be an ornithologist. but in his early teens he visited the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and was inspired with a new possibility and ambition.

After art school, David moved to rural Berkshire where he established a paintwork restoration business with his wife and raised three children. In 1986 he began teaching adult studies courses : art and later life drawing. This brought him back to his own painting interests but with an emphasis on the observation of landscape and figure. The escarpment of the Lambourn Downs towards Wantage inspired several paintings and throughout the 1990’s’ he frequently visited local Beech woods and coppices to make watercolour studies, recording the seasonal changes. In 2000 he ceased teaching and set up a large studio space at a nearby farm, which gave him the space to make larger work and return to his earlier interest in abstraction.

Influences have come from many sources and his work is also informed by travels in Europe India and North Africa. For twenty years he has almost annually visited the Greek Ionian Islands of Corfu and Paxos. On Paxos he would spend time in the olive groves, particularly on Mamari Beach painting watercolours of the shifting light that illuminates the olive grove, often returning each time to favourite locations

The woodland and olive grove studies had a significant input into his later work. “When I sit challenged to capture the essence of what I see in all its chaotic complexity I can only do it by simplifying it into patterns of colour and tone. When I work in the studio on abstract painting In a way I am concerned with the same process of pattern making.”

Solo Exhibitions
2023 'Colour Fusions' Cornerstone Gallery, Didcot, Oxon
2021-2022 'On Reflections' Arts for Health at Milton Keynes University Hospital
2020-2022 Office Exhibitions with Little van Gogh
2012 ‘Hot Spots Cool Spaces’ Ace Space - Newbury
2011 Colne Gallery. Colchester Hospital
2009 ‘Distribution’ Watermill Theatre - Newbury
2009 ‘Circulation’ Gateway Gallery - Luton Airport
2007 Stable Gallery. Green College - Oxford University
2006 ‘In Focus’ Haworth Gallery – Accrington
2005 ‘Lines’ Corn Exchange - Newbury
2003 ‘4x5’Thatcham Discovery Centre. .
2002 ‘Squared’ New Greenham Arts Restaurant Gallery
2001 ‘Paintings & Drawings’ - Corn Exchange - Newbury
1997 ‘Cornish Dreams’ - Watermill Theatre - Newbury

Group & Selected Exhibitions
2023 Surrey Contemporary Art Fair
2022 Windsor Contemporary Art Fair
2020 Large work at Cornforth Gallery, Newbury
2019 Cornforth Gallery, Christmas Show. Boundary Road, Newbury
2019 Cornforth Gallery Summer Pop Up-Kennet Centre, Newbury
2018 Cornforth Gallery 'Christmas Party Exhibition' Newbury
2018 'Affordable Art Show' The Croft. Hungerford
2018 Oxford Art Society Open Exhibition, The Cloister Gallery, Oxford
2018 'Meditation' Cornforth Gallery - Newbury
2016 'Partitions’ Arlington Arts - Newbury
2013 Wyvern Theatre. Swindon Open Studios
2013 ‘Resonance’ Ark Conference Centre - Basingstoke
2012 Spring Exhibition. Ark Conference Centre -Basingstoke'
2011 Hackwood Arts Festival. Basingstoke
2010 'Open Submission' Newbury Corn Exchange
2010 'Pembrokeshire Open' Torch Theatre - Milford Haven
2007 ‘Lautieri Moores Open’ The Gallery Cork Street, L'don
2006 ‘Elements’ Haworth Gallery - Accrington
2006 ‘Sefton Open’ Southport, Lancashire.
2006 'Hackwood Arts Festival' Basingstoke
2006 ‘Black Swan Open’- Black Swan Arts -Frome
2006 'Great Art Fair’ Alexandra Palace - L'don
2005 ‘Sketch’ Seven Contemporary Art – London
2005 ‘Sketch’ Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre
2005 ‘Conjunction’ New Greenham Arts – Newbury
2005 'Hackwood Arts Festival’ Basingstoke
2003 Hearn & Scott Gallery - Andover.
1998 ‘Art For Sight Sake’ The Arts Workshop Newbury
1996 ’Dreamlines’ Jelly Leg’d Chicken Gallery –Reading .
1995 ‘Landscape' The Laing Art Exhibition Bristol Cathedral.

2005-2023 June. Hungerford & District Community Arts Festival - Open Studio & Exhibition
2009-2011 Sept. Swindon Open Studios.
Exhibitions at Swindon Library & Wyvern Theatre
1993-2023 May. West Berks & North Hants Open Studios. Studio Openings.

2019-2023'Insight' 2019 - The Base Gallery, Greenham Park.
2019 'Hidden Ties' West Berks Museum. - The Wharf, Newbury
2018 Insight 2018. The Gallery Arlington Arts, Newbury
2017 With Diana Barraclough, Emily Miles & Mavina Baker
2000-2017 Insight’ Taster Exhibition - New Greenham Arts
2013 Benchmark - Kintbury
2013 ‘Space Between’ - Arlington Arts - Newbury
2010 Benchmark, Kintbury
2009 ‘A Quiet Knowledge’ Arlington Arts, Newbury.
2008 ‘Escaping Gravity’ - West Berks Community Hospital
2007 ‘Miscere’ West Berks Community Hospital :
‘Early & Later Works’ – West Berks Museum, Newbury :
'Transitions’ - Arlington Arts - Newbury.
2006 ‘Artists at West Berkshire Hospital'.
'Aspects of the Landscape’ - Corn Exchange - Newbury.
2005 ‘Water & Stone’ at CLM Solicitors Newbury
2004 ‘Claire Davies & David H Jones’ at Pizza Express
‘Painting on the Street - Newbury College
2002 'Painting by David H Jones & Cecilia Hall at Cafe Uno’