… is a continuing project to catalogue and exhibit Jonah Jones’s work in a definitive online collection. Although largely spoken of as a sculptor and letter-cutter during his lifetime, there were many more facets to his work. In Oriel Jonah Jones we see the full extent of these skills in different media and dimensions, encompassing architectural glass, watercolours, lettering, bronze busts, mosaics, and various other media.
The work is divided into six galleries, each gallery having two or more ‘rooms’. Click or tap an image below to start exploring.
LOST WORK Much of Jonah Jones’s work went into private collections. While working in Dublin in 1976, his rented house there was burgled and irreplaceable albums of his work were stolen, leaving large gaps in our knowledge of where his work went. If you have something by Jonah Jones (before or after 1976) about which we might be unaware, please write to us at contact@sceneandword.org. It could be a ‘lost work’…
1940s / 1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
Photograph: Robert Greetham
Ratcliffe College, Leicestershire
St Patrick’s, Newport
Ampleforth College, North Yorkshire
St John Fisher, West Heath, Birmingham
English Martyrs, Rugby
Rainhill Hall, Merseyside
St David’s, Mold
Llandudno General Hospital
Photograph: Stephen Brayne
Text inscriptions
Image inscriptions
Photograph: Stephen Brayne
Watercolour landscapes
Other watercolour paintings
Photograph: Robert Greetham
Welsh–American Portfolio
Other watercolour inscriptions
Photograph: Maggie Smales
Bronze busts
Mosaics
Wood carvings
Other media
Photograph: Stephen Brayne