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While Jonah is associated chiefly with sculpture and lettering, the medium in which he actually worked longest was watercolour. As a young man in the early 1940s, striving to realise his vocation in the arts, he learned about the techniques of painting with Fred Lawson, a respected renderer of scenes from the Yorkshire Dales.
Jonah’s earliest works of art, then, were watercolour landscapes, and it was a medium that he returned to repeatedly throughout his career. In old age, when rheumatism had forced him to give up sculpture, he found an outlet for his creativity in painting, right up to his final months.