Artwork copyright Roger Jones. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Artwork copyright Roger Jones. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Untitled (Tree), 1994

Roger Jones
(American, born 1941)

Location: Peninsula College, Port Angeles

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Artist Roger Jones created the stylized landscape painting Untitled (Tree) . The composition highlights the detail and texture of an imagined tree standing out against a bright green landscape. The artist notes that he finds “delight in the challenge of creating a meaningful composition that not only will capture the viewer’s eye, but may also tease and move it through the painting.”

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Peninsula College.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Northwest painter and art teacher Roger Jones creates figurative, pastoral landscapes in imaginative compositions.
Jones graduated from Kennewick High School in Southeastern Washington, studied education at Central Washington State College (now Central Washington University) in Ellensburg, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1972. He has taught drawing and painting classes at Edmonds Junior High School, Bellevue Community College, Spectrum at the University of Washington, Bellevue Art Museum School, and Western Washington University in Bellingham, Northwestern Washington. He has also worked as an illustrator for Boeing.