Collagraph, 45 x 34cm

Royal Academician Katherine Jones’ practice encompasses a wide range of contemporary and traditional printmaking techniques as well as watercolour and oil painting. Her limited edition and unique works are characterised by a particular luminosity whether it be generated by sunlight hitting water or the artificial glow from within a glasshouse.

Throughout her practice, Katherine has been fascinated by structures that historically provide shelter - but may be more fragile than first assumed. Much of her subject matter is inspired by her immediate surroundings whether it be the urban architecture and local parks of her home in south east London, or - in relation to her latest works - time spent on an artistic residency in Kloster Bentlage, Germany, in the summer of 2023.

This unframed limited edition print is part of our March 2014 exhibition ‘Drop Shadows’ at Sims Reed Gallery, London. This new body of work explores the power of light and subtly transformative processes within the natural world. Much of Katherine’s recent imagery takes inspiration from the minutia of flowers and leaves, in particular the way in which their appearance can relate to human faces. This emotively titled work was printed in several colours from a board plate, built up by the artist with areas of sandy texture.

Katherine graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 2003. She has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally including a solo exhibition at Rabley Gallery in 2021 and more recently in ‘Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking’ at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester . She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the London Original Print Fair Prize in 2014. She was also artist in residence at Eton College Drawing Schools in 2014; this experience informed Oliver Projects’ solo exhibitions of her work in 2020. Her work is held in public collections including the V&A Museum, London, Guangdong Museum, China, and Boston Athenaeum, USA. Katherine was elected a Royal Academician in April 2022. She lives and works in south east London.

Collagraph and block-print, 85 × 74cm, edition of 25

Katherine Jones’ practice encompass a wide range of techniques that she combines to produce her distinctive limited edition and unique prints. Her works are characterised by a particular luminosity whether it be generated by sunlight hitting water or the artificial glow from within a glasshouse.

Throughout her practice, Katherine has been interested in structures that historically provide shelter - but may be more fragile than first assumed. Much of her subject matter is inspired by her immediate surroundings including, in this case, Crystal Palace Park, as well as time spent in the Wiltshire countryside.

This large-scale unframed limited edition print is one of a pair of vividly coloured works titled ‘A High Pitch’. Featuring the light-filled glasshouse or barn-like structure which often appears in Katherine’s imagery, the composition is rich in tonal and surface contrast, achieved through the artist’s combining of different printmaking mediums. The dark khaki and fuchsia palette borrows colours from the natural world and heightens them, giving the image a surreal quality. Each print is signed, titled and numbered on the front.

Katherine graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 2003. She has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally including a solo exhibition at Rabley Gallery in 2021 and more recently in ‘Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking’ at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester . She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the London Original Print Fair Prize in 2014. Two solo exhibitions both tilted ‘We Grew the Long Bones’, were presented by Oliver Projects in 2020 in Eton and London. Her work is held in public collections including the V&A Museum, London, Guangdong Museum, China, and Boston Athenaeum, USA. Katherine was elected a Royal Academician in May 2022. She lives and works in south east London.

Collagraph and block print, 40 x 33cm, edition of 25 (unframed)

Katherine Jones’ practice encompasses a wide range of techniques that she combines to produce her distinctive limited edition and unique prints. Her works are characterised by a particular luminosity whether it be generated by sunlight hitting water or the artificial glow from within a glasshouse.

Throughout her practice, Katherine has been interested in structures that historically provide shelter - but may be more fragile than first assumed. Much of her subject matter is inspired by her immediate surroundings including Brockwell Park in Brixton and the architecture of her neighbourhood in Tulse Hill, as well as time spent in the English countryside. This unframed print is one of a number of images that explore the seductive nature of the feasting table. It is part of a body of work titled ‘We Grew the Long Bones’ which drew inspiration from archetypal, historical and mythical female figures in literature, in particular the Slavic folklore witch Baba Yaga, who flew around in a pestle and mortar.

Katherine graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 2003. She has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally including a solo exhibition at Rabley Gallery in 2021 and more recently in ‘Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking’ at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester . She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the London Original Print Fair Prize in 2014. She was also artist in residence at Eton College Drawing Schools in 2014; this residency informed ‘We Grew the Long Bones’, a body of work exhibited by Oliver Projects in 2020. Her work is held in public collections including the V&A Museum, London, Guangdong Museum, China, and Boston Athenaeum, USA. Katherine was elected a Royal Academician in April 2022. Katherine lives and works in south east London.