MILLY JONES
Melissa Jones was born in Johannesburg in 1975. Milly, as she is more commonly
known, graduated with a BA in Fine Art at the University of Stellenbosch in 1998.
After years of travel and having lived in the Western Cape, South Africa, Milly now resides in Scotland with her family.
Milly has sold her work through local and international galleries and had
numerous group and solo exhibitions.
“It is the versatility of oil and acrylic paint as well as other media that inspire me to work as a painter. I love to play with materials; experimenting to create intriguing, contrasting effects of texture, design, colour and mark making. The process of alternating between constructing and deconstructing and playfulness and discernment is like a meditation to me and the hours spent in my studio seem to fly by. In the past I have painted a variety of subject matter, mostly representational with bold colour but more recently I am enjoying painting without a reference and I like to blur the boundaries between abstract and representational art. I spent a lot of time in the woodlands around Scotland, so it is no accident that most of my new series is turning out to look like forests..."
For more info contact Milly at milly@millyjones.co.za