In 1951 Jones co-curated (with Tom Ingram) Black Eyes and Lemonade, an exhibition of craft, folk, and popular objects at the Whitechapel Gallery. However many books containing her artwork remain, in the form of dust-jackets and illustrations.
Most of the works, because of the nature of where they were created, have now disappeared. Jones also worked on the children's television series The Woodentops. Īfter the war, Jones created murals for the 1946 Britain Can Make It exhibition, and the 1947 Enterprise Scotland exhibition She also worked for P&O, creating murals for the passenger liner ships SS Orcades, SS Oronsay, SS Orsova and SS Oriana, as well as for hotels, restaurants, exhibitions and schools. The Architectural Press commissioned her to illustrate a booklet, Bombed Churches as War Memorials (1945) and Jones was further asked to write illustrated articles for the Architectural Press's Architectural Review. Early career ĭuring World War II, Jones was associated with the Recording Britain project of the Pilgrim Trust while the War Artists' Advisory Committee also purchased a work by her. Following the outbreak of the Second World War she accompanied the school where she was teaching on its evacuation to Luton. She sought commissions but realised that building up work to be free-lance would take time so took a part-time teaching post.
Jones wrote about the project in her Water-Colour painting (1960). An exceptional survival of work from this period has been restored at the University of London’s Senate House, where Jones, with four other students from the Royal College of Art, created a painted ceiling in 1936. She was taught by the likes of Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden. From Croydon she went on to the Department of Engraving at the Royal College of Art but felt unsuited so transferred to the Department of Mural Decoration in her second year. She attended Coloma Convent Girls' School, Croydon High School, from May 1924 to July 1930, and then Croydon Art School. Her background was a comfortable, middle class one. Her first sketchbooks were filled with horses and farm machinery. Her father had a saddlery and harness business at a time when Croydon was still a rural suburb. She is known for curating the exhibition Black Eyes and Lemonade (1951) and her book The Unsophisticated Arts (1951).īarbara Jones was born in Croydon, Surrey. The Treasury takes in millions of pounds each year from unclaimed estates and some of the cash could be yours! Check the list of estates published by the UK Treasury this week and contact us to claim your inheritance.Barbara Mildred Jones (25 December 1912 – 28 August 1978) was an English artist, writer and mural painter. Wills, Probate, Unclaimed Assets & People Search.
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