Katherine Jones is a contemporary artist who combines painting and printmaking techniques, bringing together disparate narratives in hyper-real or folkloric spaces.
Perceptions of safety and danger are often presented using archetypal motifs such as a house, flower, sun or tree. Jones is currently a visiting lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking at universities and colleges across the United Kingdom and Europe. She was elected as a Royal Academician in 2022. At Gainsborough’s House, Jones work will be shown in the historic house.
The exhibition will showcase a combination of prints and small panel paintings with a particular focus on plant and flower forms and the embellishments employed to attract their pollinators. The 400-year-old black Mulberry Tree in the orchard garden is used as the focus of a large 4 panel print, its branches entwined with references to Gainsborough’s House and paintings within its collection. Repeated overlapping leaf motifs are reminiscent of Sudbury’s fine decorative silk, and the repeating renewals of nature.