Artwork copyright Roger Jones. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Below the Mountain, 1995

Roger Jones
American (born 1941)

Location: Sultan Middle School, Sultan

About the Artwork

Below the Mountain is a figurative landscape painting by artist Roger Jones. The richly detailed scene highlights different colors, textures, and elements in the natural landscape. The artist notes, “My art work comes from my eye’s attraction to what appears relevant in today’s landscape and a delight in the challenge of creating a meaningful composition that not only will capture the viewer’s eye, but may also teach and move it through the painting.”

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Sultan School District.

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.