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Indepth Arts News:
"Thomas Williams Jones: Three Decades of Watercolors"
1999-08-04 until 1999-10-03
Frye Art Museum
Seattle, WA,
USA United States of America
he watercolors of Thomas William Jones are so
evocative of memory and seductive of eye that it is
tempting to write about them at length. It is better,
however, to step aside and let the images speak for
themselves or, more correctly, to allow the images to
establish a dialogue with the viewer, unhindered.
Nevertheless, one point needs to be made clear: these
watercolors are not depictions of the things they seem to
portray. This is not as contradictory as it sounds. Jones
does not paint objects per se; rather he paints the
memories of his feelings about those objects. He often
chooses a site or an object that he knows. Looking
through the present to the past it evokes, he changes or
eliminates details until the image matches his recollection
of a specific moment. There is great technical mastery
here, so great, that it doesn1t stand in the way of the
direct experience of the images. This is a rare talent and
gives Jones1 work a potency that enhances the poetry of
his vision.
Richard V. West Executive Director
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