"I approach my work as a musician might, particularly when improvising. Consequently my practice has similarities with that of Ceri Richards. If you replace the reference to the 'singer' with the word 'artist' in this quote from Wilfred Brown you have a description of the role of the artist to which I subscribe and hope to achieve."
Glyn Jones October 1st 2002

"Whenever I look at an audience, I recall that I am not there to express myself or to impress others by making noises. On behalf of everyone present I have to render articulate things that are stirring in every heart, but which without me would have no point of focus. Without the aspirations of the listeners I am as powerless to kindle a flame as a burning glass on a sunless day. Yet, were it not for a mediatoer, the poem would remain so much print, the melody a crazy string of dots - mere ink. The dormant cyphers can be brought to life only by the exercise of a sacramental gift, and God has generously given this gift to people like me who have done nothing whatever to deserve it. It is therefore my duty to stand in all weathers at the cross-roads of human experience, assimilating all that I may observe, so that the quintessence of any given emotion may irradiate my voice as I sing of it and my listeners thrill to this as being the articulation of something within themselves."
Wilfred Brown

"I am sure that all good painting provides that same kind of focus which allows the observers to articulate something deep inside themselves, something which otherwise would have remained undiscovered."
Glyn Jones

Ceri Series - "Sonata 2."

Glyn Jones was educated at Pentre Grammar School from 1948-53 and then at Cardiff College of Art from 1953-57, where he was awarded the Silver Medal.

From 1957-60 Glyn Jones studied at th Slade School of Fine Art (University College, London).

Qualifications:

Ministry of Education Intermediate Certificate in Art and Craft 1955.

National Diploma in Design NDD 1957.

DFA (Lond) 1959

UCL Postgraduate Award for independent study at the Slade School 1959-60.

Employment:

Mid Warwickshire School of Art, Lecturer 1961-65.

Coventry College of Art, Coventry University, Lecturer and Senior lecturer, 1965-71.

Cardiff College of Art, University of Wales Institute Cardiff. Head of the School of Fine Art 1972-99.

Cardiff School of Art and Design, University of Wales Institute cardiff. Director of Research, 1999-2001.

Exhibitions:
Glyn Jones has an extensive Curriculum Vitae and this is too large to display within the pages of this Gallery. For a full version please contact the artist. Here we have selected a very small example of his exhibitions and achievements.

Young Contemporaries - London. Paintings and Prints selected each year 1957 / 1958 / 1959 / 1960.

Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales - Ebbw Vale 1958,60,65,68,75,76,80,90,92,96,99.

Industrial Wales - Welsh Arts Council Touring Exhibition 1960.

"Brython"

Glyn Jones was selected to represent Wales at 'Euro Celtic Art' Salon D'Art Contemporain Des Pays Celtes Lorient France in August 1999

He exhibited work in the 'Certain Welsh Artists exhibition at the National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff, 1999 (illustrated essay in the book of the same name. Publisher SEREN)

Fragile Stones Make Art - National Museum & Gallery Cardiff, 1978.

Royal West of England Academy - Bristol. 56 Group Wales, 1978.

Jones Setch Giardelli - University College Cardiff & University College Swansea, 1978.

Tolly Cobbold - Eastern Arts 2nd National Exhibition - Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and touring, 1979.

Recent Purchases - Works acquired by the Contemporary Art Society for Wales 1973-78. Welsh Arts Council Touring exhibition 1979.

Glyn Jones one-man Exhibition - Frank Marino Gallery New York, 1979.

Highlights 1979-80 Frank Marino Gallery New York, 1980.

Glyn Jones one-man Exhibition - Welsh Arts Council Gallery Cardiff, 1981.

Gallerie D'Arte Moderna Bologna Italy - Comune di Bologna-56 Group Wales 1983.

Television Southwest-Southwest Arts National Exhibition - Touring 1984, Prizewinner.

Celtic Vision 1998 - Dublin Celebrating a Thousand Years, Bank of Ireland Exhibition Centre, Dublin, 1998.

William Feaver's Selection - Oriel Welsh Arts Council Cardiff, 1990.

Historical Survey of Art in Wales - Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, Aberystwyth 1992 - Curated by Peter Lord.

7th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art - Libramont, Belgium, 1994.
Work commended.

3 Person Exhibition - Courtyard Gallery, Dublin, 1997.

Certain Welsh Artists - National Museum and Gallery Cardiff, 1999.

Welsh Painting into the 21st Century - Mall Gallery London, 2001.

Exhibited at 'Painting, Yspryd/Spirit, Wales at Euro Celtic Art, Lorient France, August 2001.

Glyn Jones one-man Exhibition - Winchester Cathedral, 2002.

Please contact Professor Glyn Jones for the full unabridged version of his impressive C.V.

Professor Glyn Jones has made a significant contribution to Teaching and Curriculum Development and was appointed the first Head of the newly formed School of Fine Art at Cardiff College of Art-University of Wales Institute 1972 - 1999.