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

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

Fallen Tree Creek, 1992

Roger Jones
American (born 1941)

Location: Captain Strong Elementary School, Battle Ground

About the Artwork

Fallen Tree Creek is a painting by artist Roger Jones. He notes that the composition encourages the viewer's eye to search the painting, "taking in the textural play of landscape elements as it flows along."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Battle Ground Public Schools.

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.