ANDREW MCNEILE JONES British

Andrew Mcneile Jones painting process begins with found images; whether, old family photographs, magazine cuttings or film stills ,which might stimulate associated memories – a Proustian quality of transporting one to another time and place. Preparatory ideas responding to this source material are developed in quick oil sketches that may or may not be amalgamated or slowly simplified before being transferred to the canvas. This first layer of paint is then continually worked and re-worked; sections are scraped back, shapes are overlaid onto the ghosts of others; select areas are worked up in fine detail, others heightened with paint splattered, sprayed or thrown at the canvas as the work evolves.