Tim Jones is clearly influenced by the impressionist tradition, attempting to capture a fleeting moment expressed through a shifting light. Although he paints city scenery, what he truly captures is the captivating play of light, broken and refracted reflections depicting people going on with their everyday lives. It seems that rather than painting the object itself directly, Tim Jones prefers to capture the overlapping patterns if it is reflections, a ghost image of sorts.
Even though the motifs often portray scenes from a busy city life, one can find an underlying impression of solitude and loneliness in Tim Jones’ paintings. There is often a solitary, seemingly lost figure in the crowd, or a row of unoccupied chairs and empty wine glasses insinuating that something is missing, creating a tension between an ingrained image of a rushed city life and the occasional loneliness it inevitably brings.
Tim Jones
