About the artist

Bio

Eric Leonard Jones’ distorted abstract art offers an arresting narrative on passion humming just beneath the surface. At its core, Jones’ work posses a depth of emotion that an initial glance cannot immediately grasp. Each strike of color, stroke and space is at once suggestive of physical, emotional, mental and mechanical thought and energy and is an explosively dramatic entity unto its own.

Jones’ first learned of his gift as an artist in through his first grade teacher and after winning 1st place in an art contest. During his teen years, comic books inspired Jones to further explore his talent as an artist. Naturally, he went to Valdosta State University as an art major and started painting “The Movie” collection. During his fourth year, Jones wanted to become an actor. With the thought of becoming an actor, he moved to the sunny California, Los Angeles. He went to California State University, Fullerton for his masters in Fine Arts and to get his scholarship to get head shots for acting auditions. Juggling art and acting, he realized his artistic talent far exceeded his ability to act and took it as a sign from God to once again dedicate to painting. It is at this point Eric Leonard Jones started to have his personal encounters with God and began his abstract distortion pieces.

“Art is not complete until it is shared” is Eric Leonard Jones art motto. Though his “Conversations with God” collection is an expression of his personal experience with God, the depth of his art allows the distortions to be reinterpreted by others in their own way. In this way, the audience is the final piece of the art.

Besides beings able to communicate his emotions and thoughts on a canvas, Eric Jones also shares his knowledge of art throughout the year by through art lectures at universities and live art shows. He was also featured in Oscene, Orange County Register, The BUZZ at CSUF, the OC Art Grant as an artist who “reconstructs the human condition by focusing on life’s failures as an opportunity for growth”.

Today Eric Leonard Jones is an art instructor at Irvine Valley College and at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. He hopes to continuously evolve for the better as an artist just as his life has and his distortions have become perfectly harmonious.