Modern British Gallery offers a large selection of affordable oils, watercolours and limited edition prints by major British artists.

JONES, David

David Jones CH, CBE (1895 – 1974) was a British painter and modernist poet. As a painter he worked mainly in watercolour on portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engraver and inscription painter. In 1965, Kenneth Clark took him to be the best living British painter, Throughout the 1920s, he trained with the artisans of the Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic, at Ditchling, Sussex, headed by Eric Gill.

Artworks:

‘The Lancers’ £250

Etching, printed from the original plate. Printed on hand-made paper in edition of 75 by Douglas Cleverdon, 1981. Plate measures 12.5cm x 15cm plus full

‘Recling Cat’ £225

Etching, printed from the original plate. Printed on hand-made paper in edition of 75 by Douglas Cleverdon, 1981. Plate measures 11.3cm x 8.7cm plus full

‘Puma’ £200

Etching, printed from the original plate. Printed on hand-made paper in edition of 75 by Douglas Cleverdon, 1981. Plate measures 7.5cm x 10.2cm plus full

‘Nativity’ £225

Etching, printed from the original plate. Printed on hand-made paper in edition of 75 by Douglas Cleverdon, 1981. Plate measures 20cm x 15.5cm plus full

‘The Shepherds’ £125

Etching, printed from the original plate. Printed in 1996 on hand-made paper by Ian Mortimer OBE. Plate measures 7.7cm x 7.4cm plus full borders. Conservation

‘Crucifixion’ £175

Etching, printed from the original plate. Printed on hand-made paper in edition of 75 by Douglas Cleverdon, 1981. Plate measures 15cm x 12.5cm plus full

‘Tenby from Caldy Island’ £250

Wood engraving, printed from the original block. Printed on Japon paper in edition of 75 by Douglas Cleverdon, 1981. Block measures 10.2cm x 15.3cm plus

‘March’ £175

Wood engraving, printed from the original block. Printed on Japon paper in edition of 75 by Douglas Cleverdon, 1981. Block measures 9cm x 7.5cm plus

The Downs £125

Wood engraving printed from block. Limited edition of 75, printed on hand-made paper. Block measures 7.5cm x 9.5cm (blank verso). Mounted.

Everyman £125

Wood engraving printed from block. Limited edition of 75, printed on hand-made paper. Block measures 14.1cm x 16.3cm (blank verso). Mounted.