Jonah Jones (sculptor): Wikipedia
Jonah’s encyclopedia article: life, art, selected writings, further reading, external links.
Photographs of Jonah Jones: Wikimedia Commons
A fascinating collection of 100 photographs, mostly of Jonah at work (including some duplicates), in his workshops in the Tremadog Market Hall and the terrazzo tile works on the Porthmadog harbourside. Some of Laurie Cribb. Photographer: Geoff Charles. Photo collection: National Library of Wales.
Obituary by Meic Stephens in the Independent, 2 December 2004 (contains some factual errors but otherwise a good summary).
Obituary by Euan Cameron in the Guardian, 14 January 2005.
Brief profile of Jonah with photos of some works. Some of the currently missing images from the Welsh–American Portfolio at National Museum Wales can be viewed here in Oriel Jonah Jones.
Autodidact who discovered Wales: Institute of Welsh Affairs
Review by Harri Pritchard Jones of the biography Jonah Jones: an Artist’s Life, 17 June 2012.
Jonah Jones – 224 Parachute Field Ambulance: Belsen Online Archive
Article by Peter Jones about Jonah’s letters to Mona Lovell, published in Dear Mona: Letters from a Conscientious Objector.
Report on craftsmen working in Tremadog led by sculptor, Jonah Jones: BBC Cymru Wales
BBC Cymru Wales TV report from ‘Wales Today’ programme, 19 September 1966, with Jonah speaking at his workshop in Tremadog Market Hall about his sculpture, making the windows for Morfa Nefyn church (now in Mold), and his unrealised dream of making a large sculpture to commemorate the drowned community of Tryweryn.
Jonah Jones art on show at National Museum Cardiff: BBC News
BBC News report on the ‘Jonah Jones: Y Gair/The Word’ exhibition at the NMW, 2012–13.
Y Bont: BBC Cymru Wales ‘Hidden Histories’
From episode 3 of the ‘Hidden Histories’ series, 17 November 2009, produced by Element Productions in association with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. A study of Jonah’s largest public sculpture, Y Bont, marking the start of the campaign to save this landmark sculpture from demolition and find it a new home in Wales.
Colleagues and Gwobr Jonah Jones awards
John Petts (1914–1991)
Both pacifists, Jonah Jones and John Petts were in the same parachute unit during World War Two, where they met in 1944. A multi-talented artist, sculptor, teacher and publisher, Petts had studied at Hornsey College of Art, the Royal Academy and Central School of Arts and Crafts. [Read more…]
Lawrence (Laurie) Cribb (1898–1978)
Lawrence Cribb, whom all his friends called Laurie, had continued turning out fine inscriptions at the late Eric Gill’s workshop at Pigotts near High Wycombe. Jonah, keen to learn from him the skills of stone carving and letter cutting, secured a modest scholarship to train at Pigotts in early 1950. [Read more…]
Meic Watts
Meic Watts graduated from Norwich School of Art and then began an apprenticeship in letter cutting and stone carving in Jonah Jones’s workshop near Penrhyndeudraeth. In 1989, with Jonah and the sculptor Howard Bowcott, he formed the Moelwyn Group to exhibit at the second Cricieth Festival. [Read more…]
Howard Bowcott
With Jonah Jones and Meic Watts, Howard Bowcott formed the Moelwyn Group in 1989 to exhibit at the second Cricieth Festival. He is a sculptor specialising in public art projects and private commissions who considers his artwork to be “about touch…” [Read more…]
Shauna Taylor
Scene & Word’s first Gwobr Jonah Jones award in 2023 went to the painter Shauna Taylor. Her three images, Baby’s First Pint, Great-grandmother Sunbathing and First Kiss won her the Young Artist Scholarship: Highly Commended at Lle Celf, in Eisteddfod Llŷn and Eifionydd 2023. [Read more…]
Beca Fflur
Awarded the 2024 Gwobr Jonah Jones, jeweller/craftsperson Beca Fflur’s series of workshops at the Rhondda Cynon Taf National Eisteddfod were influenced by Jonah Jones’s stained glass and lettering work. [Read more…]
Ffion Pritchard
The 2025 Gwobr Jonah Jones went to the award-winning multidisciplinary artist Ffion Pritchard. Inspired by Jonah Jones’s watercolour lettering and using his Alphabetum Romanum Jonah as her source, she ran a series of ‘cyanotype’ workshops at the Wrecsam Eisteddfod. [Read more…]