“Through her portraits Los Angeles based artist opens windows into the lives of ordinary people... Jones specializes in portraiture, painting people the way that Bruce Chatwin once wrote about them., an ardent adventurer - the kind of girl that took Dead Poets Society’s John Keating’s advice to heart and has been ‘sucking the marrow out of life’ for as long as she can remember. A consummate traveller, hers is a life lived on the road... it is something sacrosanct, something she describes in short verbal brushstrokes, the sum making a very coherent whole... The paintings made from this journey (and from previous ones) are rich, textured, colourful works, infused with the spirit of both the artist and the traveller. Through colour and composition, broad brush strokes and an eye for detail, Jones immortalizes people’s lives and their history on canvas...”