‘How paintings are made is an important part of the overall process, the framework I have in place for making these paintings is one that has evolved gradually out of my personal circumstances as a painter.'
Gavin Jones is a painter of Tongan, Welsh and Scottish ancestry.
The artist states, 'Paint as a material serves as a storehouse for memory, memory both projected and involuntary. Painting as a procedure can enable and invoke specific memories, consigning them together into an image albeit an abstract representation. This process of image making is dependent upon a framework that is intentionally self -restrictive, for example only horizontal marks are used in the application and removal of paint. Here the basic tendency is to connect the horizontal with a landscape an illusion that provokes recollections of a someplace or a somewhere, an abstract elsewhere that relies on memory to fill in the gaps.'
Gavin Jones graduated with a Master of Fine Arts, Elam, Auckland University, 2001.