Artwork copyright Roger Jones. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Brushwood II, 1987

Roger Jones
American (born 1941)

Location: Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary, Yakima

About the Artwork

Brushwood II is a landscape from artist Roger Jones' body of figurative paintings that depict creeks, trees and foliage in rich detail. He describes these landscapes as "a stage for animal inhabitants."

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