Heather Jones is an artist that did her art training and education while working on her career and as a mom of three children. Over the span of her career as an artist Heather has held 18 solo exhibitions at leading galleries and won numerous awards, making her work highly collectable.
She is an artist whose creativity is expressed through many forms and media from painting and print making to jewellery and textile designs. Heather Jones’s paintings are filled with such depth of colour and texture that shows her passion for both aspects of the creative process, which she achieves by expertly overlaying transparent papers and printing inks.
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
1989 Diploma in Art Studies
1996 Bachelor of Arts Degree (UWA), majoring in Fine Art & English
Lectured in watercolour painting, printmaking and design, Carine College of TAFE
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Gallows Gallery
2012 Gallows Gallery
2010 Stafford Studios of Fine Art
2007 Stafford Studios of Fine Art
2005 Stafford Studios of Fine Art
2001 Stafford Studios of Fine Art
1999 Stafford Studios of Fine Art
1997 Stafford Studios of Fine Art
1995 Stafford Studios of Fine Art
1993 Stafford Studios of Fine Art
1989 Fremantle Arts Gallery
1986 Rics Gallery
1985 Rics Gallery
1983 Waterways Studio
1981 Rics Gallery
1978 Churchill Gallery
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Represented in numerous group exhibitions including:
Arthritis Foundation, Freedom from Hunger, Asthma Foundations, Perth College, WA Watercolorists, Hawks Hill Gallery, Zonta, Amberley Experience, Fremantle Arts Centre Christmas Exhibitions
SELECTED AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
2008 Work selected for the cover of the annual UWA publication, Westerly
2005 Major Prize Best Australian Artist, Cossack Art Awards
1996 Tertiary Jewellery Exhibition Award
1995 Work selected for Tertiary Jewellery Exhibition
1994 Spring Exhibition Prize, Watercolour Society of WA
1993 Work selected for the Australian/American Watercolour Exhibition, Melbourne
1990 First Prize, American wine Label Design Award
1990 Designed a series of wine lables for Lenton Brae Winery, Margaret River
Designed a 10 x 3 m, stained glass window, installed Lenton Brae Winery
1987 Lamont Wines Prize for Watercolour
1983 Sabemo Art Award
1982 First Prize Watercolour, Floreat Rotary Art Award
1981 First Prize Watercolour, Wanneroo Shire Art Award
First Prize Pastel, Wanneroo Shire Art Award
1980 First Prize Watercolour, Stirling Shire Art Exhibition
1980 First Prize Watercolour, Wanneroo Shire Art Award
1980 Inaugural Exhibition First Prize, Watercolour Society of WA
1979 First Prize, Williams Art Award
1979 First Prize Pastel, Wanneroo Shire Art Award
1979 First Prize Oils, Wanneroo Shire Art Award
1978 WA Society of Artists Annual Prize
1978 First & Second Prize, Trigg Art Club
1977 First & Second Prize, Trigg Art Club