Picnic/Arboretum

Fay Jones is one of the Northwest's most well known artists.  She is a figurative painter who acknowledges the underlying narrative with confident originality.  Her work is layered and theatrical, boldly colored, smoothly curved and often highly patterned.  She carefully edits her compositions, presenting ideas through theatrical characterization, as though she is directing a show on canvas.  Everything that happens in her paintings relates somewhat to an autobiographical event.