Jane Jones is a Denver native who discovered very early in
life, through crayons, that she loved color. She was rarely
seen without her crayons or watercolors. By the time she
was seven she had already begun to separate her crayons
into cool colors and what she called “citrus”
or warm colors. She wrote stories and illustrated them and
created “film strips: on paper using her 72 Crayola
colors. Now She says that she lives for color and light,
“that’s the reason that I get out of bed in the
morning.”
After graduation from art school in 1989, she spent several
years honing her techniques and searching for her artistic
vision and voice. Jones knew that she loved color, that she
was drawn to the personal intimacy of still life and that
she loved the beauty of nature.
One day while playing with a new close-up lens on her
camera she decided to investigate some flowers. “I
saw a whole new and incredibly beautiful world of shape and
movement, sort of like looking into a microscope.”
That began a whole new artistic journey into paining the
amazing world of flowers. For several years she filled
large canvases with the magnified close-up images of
flowers. But the time came a few years ago to put the
flowers in vases and begin using symbolism to create more
meaningful images that would satisfy her spiritual
exploration.