About Jason

Jason Jones Jason was born in Liverpool but spent most of his early years in Formby, a suburb of Liverpool. At a young age he always had an interest in art and became runner-up in a national painting competition at the age of ten. Then later on at the age of fifteen and sixteen he took his hand to sign writing for local shops and architectural drawings for friend's premises. Despite this early creative interest Jason found his first employment in Insurance. This six year period working with deferred pensions did allow him to stretch his wings and to see a bit more of the world, whilst allowing him to discover an interest in the more extreme side of sports, something he still intends to return to.

Then at the age of twenty-five Jason decided to return to education and embarked on a Combined Honours Degree in Fine Art and Psychology.

Although having to manage a full-time and quite often demanding job, Jason finds time wherever possible to pursue his love of painting. To date, he has had three solo shows in Liverpool , and has been involved in group exhibitions around the world from Texas, Sweden to Edinburgh and London.

In attempting to understand Jason and his motivation behind his work, Sue Poole a close friend and Chairman of the Friends of the Liverpool Tate, has written in a proposed article, "Jason is reluctant to theorise his work as the explanation limits its relevance. Words are necessarily too particular, formal and constrained in interpretation and will result in negating the qualities of immediacy and wonder. He also rejects the notion of 'beauty' but would rather work toward an impact, which could be described as a 'presence', or soul moving experience. His paint is his voice, and he speaks clearly and effectively of the trials and traumas of humanity. The Chaos Theory paintings are the nightmares of every troubled soul; the loss, fear and loneliness of life, with the glimmer of hope in the shaft of sunlight breaking through.

"Everyday life and experience has provided the impetus for each of the notional themes in his artistic progression and he still feels that he has more to investigate in the 'emotion of the moment'." Jason's paintings already speak eloquently of life's beauty and it's pain, needing neither pictures nor words to draw an almost primeval emotion from the soul. He captures a split moment in time which finds resonance within our own emotions, and it seems that now he is also capturing the attention of the art market."