Lucy Jones After the Storm, 1989

Born in 1955, British artist Lucy Jones is renowned for her raw, wild landscapes and distinctively provocative portraits, characterised by expressive abstract brushwork and vibrant colour. Balancing an intricate rendering of line and space in her landscapes with the powerful simplicity of her portraits, Jones' paintings conduct a journey through both her interior landscapes and the external world beyond.

Lucy Jones spends long periods working outside, particularly along the borders of England and Wales, where she is based. The paintings which have arisen from these prolonged engagements respond to sensations of place and the revolving cycles of the seasons. Jones' landscape paintings can also evoke a sense of the artist's own physicality through the visceral energy implied by each mark, evident in the language she uses to describe her process: "grabbing hold" of its essence, and "pinning down" colour. Within each arrangement, memories of space, rhythm, and colour are reinvented, beginning with an initial tonal reaction to a pre-coloured ground.

Winner of the prestigious Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize in 2021, her work continues to be exhibited widely and is held in numerous public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Arts Council Collection, the National Portrait Gallery, London and the Government Art Collection.