Sheep Jones
Biograhpy

I was born and grew up in Waterville, Maine. I studied art at the University of Maine in Portland. I work in oil and wax.

My paintings begin with layers. From my past work in watercolor and wax I’ve held on to the opportunities that mixing transparent colors offers. Layers add extra interest, leaving swatches of colors in their wake. These are perfect tidbits for the imagination.

I always am looking for the puzzle pieces to suggest a narrative. Disparate images finally come together and start to hint at some kind of sense. The thing is, all people have stories. Often, they will look at one of my paintings and recognize in it their own story, their own past, their own dreams.

I have exhibited my work in several solo and group shows and galleries in the US and Europe. In 2003, I was chosen as Artist of the Year at the Torpedo Factory.

I split my time between living in the Washington DC area and in Belfast, Maine.


Botanical #48, 2009
oil on wood, 20 x 20"
University of Maryland, University College Collection





Red Beauty, 2009
oil on wood, 12 x 12"
$700





Carrots for Eyes, 2009
oil on wood, 12 x 12"
University of Maryland, University College Collection





Botanical #51, 2009
oil on wood, 12 x 12"
University of Maryland, University College Collection





Leaning on Vegetables, 2009
oil on wood, 12 x 12"
$700





With a Tattoo, 2009
oil and gold leaf on board, 24 x 24"
$1600





Two Hills, 2009
oil on canvas, 24 x 36"
$2200





Envelop, 2009
oil on canvas, 12 x 12"
Private Collection





Celery, 2009
oil on canvas, 20 x 20"
$1200





Shed and Chandelier #2, 2009
oil on wood, 20 x 20"
Private Collection





Botanical #34, 2007
Oil and gold leaf on wood, 18 x 14"
$800





Four Bees, 2009
Oil on wood, 12 x 12"
$700





Botanical #33, 2007
Oil and wax on wood and inset canvas, 12 x 12"
$700





Botanical #46, 2009
Oil and wax on wood, 12 x 12"
$700





Wilton, Maine, 2008
Oil and wax on wood, 12 x 12"
$700





Hive with Tulips, 2008
Oil and wax on wood, 18 x 26"
$1400




Reviews Old Town Crier 01.nov.01
F. Lennox Campello
Finally, in the solo room there is some truly breathtaking paintings of what normally are boring subjects: vegetables, fruits and flowers. The artist is Sheep Jones and the work is superb! Jones experiments wildly with various pigments and papers and plastics to create colorful, imaginative, exuberant works that make one glad that there are artists who still love to pick up a brush and cover a blank surface with an image, ignoring how “dead” painting is supposed to be according to some silly art dictators. She works her pigments onto paper, Mylar, clayboard and some medium odd known as Yupe. Her creations allow us to go underground as a sort of a vegetable peeping Tom and let us see just what those carrots do underground.

SunSpot.net 02.dec.29
Glen McNatt
Somehow, the most affecting pictures for me were of the sheds, whose casual, improvised architectures seemed to lend themselves to all sorts of abstracted musings about landscape, the environment and a powerful sense of place - without, however, being about anywhere in particular.

Washington Post 04.april.08
Jessica Dawson
Jones belongs to the Robert Rauschenberg school of painting, in which sticking an object on top of the canvas works just as fine as oil or encaustic. In her latest group of paintings, on view at Target, Jones includes articles of children’s clothing and the occasional plastic google eye. She douses them with paint and marks her board or canvas with rough incisions and a somber palette.