Martyn Jones is a contemporary painter who works from his studio based in Cardiff, Wales, U.K. His works are in collections all over the world and his style is often compared to that of Miro and among his tutors were the great British Modern artists Patrick Heron and Adrian Heath. Jones graduated M.A. Fine Art, at Chelsea School of Art, London and was awarded Junior Fellowship at Bath Academy of Art. ‍As Martyn says 'My works are abstract, but the inspiration and basis for them are found in reality and the world around me. My experiences of the world are the prime material for abstraction, employing my personal alphabet of shapes and colour. My responses are really a stream of consciousness that I hope evokes the way in which I see the world, which to me is always as a place of beauty. I celebrate vibrations or sound through the use of colour in painting. However, I sometimes work in silence, listening to the noise of the natural world and this again informs the shapes and colors that I use.''A further sense comes in the use of saturated color that you can almost taste. I paint expanses of color but within these are small jewel-like accents of bright glimmering ultramarine, umber, violet or viridian creating deep sumptuous chromatic blacks on the canvas. Turquoise is often used and is a tranquil color, transcendent, quiet and deep. One key motif in my work is the apparent chalk line. I see these as precious and fragile, it is time-consuming to achieve. They seem to be simple, a gesture made by a child in chalk, and I feel that I capture the spontaneity of a child’s drawing with them, however, these lines cannot be created with a single or continuous brushstroke, they are painstakingly made with a tiny brush. The overall effect has a sense of immediacy, but the creative process is very different to this.''I think ultimately, I am searching for something unobtainable, a calm tranquillity, an impossible form of transcendence, a perfect existence and that is what brings me back to the canvas.' Solo Exhibition (since 2015) 2015 Artefact Pardo Gallery, Florida2015 Ffin-y-Parc Gallery, Wales2017 Ffin-y-Parc Gallery, Wales2018 Heath Gallery, Palm Springs, CaliforniaSelected group exhibitions Selected Collections Ashby Media, New York City.Harlem Homes, New York.Feederle-Schlaffer, Zurich, Switzerland.Allied Irish Banks, Wales.Cynon Valley Museum and Gallery, Wales.University of Dallas, Texas.University of Glamorgan, Wales.Contemporary Art Society, London.Wales International Center, New York.Mosaic Information Solutions Ltd., Aberdeen, Scotland.