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The 1960s were Jonah Jones’s single most productive decade, and the years when he reached the peak of his powers. While much of the time was taken with commissions for churches, he also produced a considerable volume of his own sculpture. By the beginning of this period he was moving away from the essentially figurative, towards a greater austerity and purity of form, purged of what he called “emotive overtones”. From there his style evolved quite rapidly into abstraction, showing a confident mastery of idea and execution.
From around 1965 Jonah began to combine contrasting materials in one work – slate with marble, stone with aluminium (he made a number of works in metal during these years). While still predominantly intimate in scale, these sculptures were significantly larger than his early works. The largest were all public commissions – several of them reflecting his growing preoccupation with themes related to Welsh identity, mythology and landscape.