AboutCV
CV
1965 Born Bristol
1972-83 Educated at Clifton College, Bristol
1983-87 Trained Bristol Polytechnic, BA (Hons) Fine Art.
1987-89 Worked in stained-glass
1988 Married Jane Blazeby
1990 Started painting
1996-2001 Anna, Katy and Edward born.
Solo Exhibitions
1992 Coopers Gallery, Bristol
2000 Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2002 Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2003 Six Chapel Row, Bath
2004 ‘Travelling Light’, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2005 ‘Travelling Light’, Chelsea Art Gallery, Palo Alto, California, USA
2006 ‘Traces in the Air’, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2008 ‘Grace Notes’, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2014 ‘Light’, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2017 ‘Aurora’, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2019 ‘Ice and Light’, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2021 ’30 Years at Crane Kalman Gallery, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2023 ‘Paintings of Silence’, North House Gallery, Manningtree
2023 ‘Arctic Visions’, Royal Geographical Society, London
2024 ‘Arctic Visions’, Nature in Art Museum and Art Gallery, Gloucestershire
Two Person Exhibitions
1991 ‘Nick Jones & Mark Barnett’, Unit 6, Temple Meads Industrial Estate, Bristol
1998 ‘Nicholas Jones & Janet Watson’ Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2011 ‘Paintings by Nicholas Jones with sculptures by Tom Stogdon’, Crane Kalman Gallery
Group Exhibitions
1984 The Studio Gallery, Bristol
1987 The Knapp Gallery, London
1988 Pelter/Sands, Bristol
1988 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
1990 Brewhouse Open, Taunton
1991 Praxis Gallery, Bristol
1991 St George’s Crypt Gallery, Bristol
1991 Midlands Contemporary Art, Birmingham
1992 Plymouth Arts Centre
1992 Crane Kalman Gallery, London
1994 London Contemporary Art Fair
1994 Manchester Contemporary Art Fair
1994 Contemporary Art Society, Royal Festival Hall, London
1995 Contemporary Art Society, Royal Festival Hall, London
1996 ‘Young Blood’ Crane Kalman Gallery, London
1996 Schoolhouse Gallery, Bath
1996 Contemporary Art Society, Royal Festival Hall, London
1997 Schoolhouse Gallery, Bath
1997 Gordon Hepworth Fine Art, Exeter
1999 Art 99, Business Design Centre, London
1999 Six Chapel Row, Bath
1999 Nature in Art, Wallsworth Hall, Gloucester
1999 20th Century British Art Fair, RCA, London
1999 ‘Silence in Painting’, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2000 Napier Gallery, Jersey
2000 Art First, 9 Cork Street, London
2001 Art 2001, Business Design Centre, London
2001 ARCO, Madrid
2001 Glynebourne
2001 20th Century British Art Fair, RCA, London
2001 The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
2001 Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2002 Art 2002, Business Design Centre, London
2002 Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2003 Art 2003, Business Design Centre, London
2003 ‘Against the Trend‘, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2003 20/21 British Art Fair, Commonwealth Institute, London
2003 Art Basel-Miami, South Beach, Florida
2003 Riverview Art Gallery, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
2004 Art 2004, Business Design Centre, London
2004 ‘British Landscape Painting in the Twentieth Century’, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2005 Art 2005, Business Design Centre, London
2005 Crane Kalman Gallery, London
2006 Art 2006, Business Design Centre, London
2011 20/21 British Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London
2012-17, 19,20 London Art Fair, Islington, London
2019 Artist Explorers, Twenty-Twenty Gallery, Ludlow
2019 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2020 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2021 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2021 ‘The Sea; the Sea’ (Anthony Garrett, Frances Hatch, Nicholas Jones, Janette Kerr, Petter Southall), Sladers Yard, Dorset
2022 Wildlife Artist of the Year Award, the Mall Galleries, London
2022 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2023 Art London, Business Design Centre, Islington
2023 ‘Silence and Slow Time’ (Louise Baalam, Nicholas Jones, Alfred Stockham, Petter Southall) Sladers Yard, Dorset
2023 The Stratford Gallery, Broadway, Worcestershire
2022 Wildlife Artist of the Year Award, the Mall Galleries, London
2023 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2024 Summer Print Show, Sladers Yard, Dorset
2024 Wildlife Artist of the Year Award, the Mall Galleries, London
2024 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2024 ‘Radiance’, Sladers Yard, Dorset
2024 Rachel Bebb Contemporary, Hampshire
2024 The Stratford Gallery, Broadway, Cotswolds
Awards
1990 South West Arts Fine Art Project Award
2018 Friends of the Scott Polar Research Institute Arctic Artist in Residence
2022 Royal Geographical Society Cherry Kearton Medal and Award
2022 David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year Award, ‘Earth’s Wild Beauty’ Category Winner, in association with BBC Wildlife
2023 Aesthetica Art Prize – Longlisted Artist
2023 David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year, Highly Commended, The Mall Galleries, London
2024 Aesthetica Art Prize – Longlisted Artist
Corporate & Museum Collections
Freshfields International Law Firm, London
Brown Brothers Harriman Ltd, London EC2
Lloyds TSB Group Plc, London EC3
Nature in Art, Wallsworth Hall, Gloucester
Publications
‘Silence in Painting’, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 1999
Nicholas Jones, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 2000
Nicholas Jones, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 2002
‘Against the Trend’, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 1999
Nicholas Jones, ‘Travelling Light’, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 2004
‘British Landscape Painting in the Twentieth Century’, Crane Kalman Gallery, 2004
Nicholas Jones, ‘Traces in the Air’, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 2006
Nicholas Jones & Tom Stogdon, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 2011
Nicholas Jones, ‘Light’, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 2014
Nicholas Jones, ‘Aurora’, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 2017
Nicholas Jones, ‘Ice and Light’, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 2019
Nicholas Jones, ‘Thirty Years at Crane Kalman Gallery’, 2021
Nicholas Jones, ‘Arctic Visons’ 2024
Press
National Geographic Espana, ‘Un pintor en el Arctico’, October 2021
Geographical, ‘Arctic artist and geographer Nicholas Jones’ evocative icebergs’, October 2021