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Timothy Emlyn Jones, Dean and Graduate DirectorA Review by Mel Gooding"Timothy Emlyn Jones is one of those artists who take it upon themselves to re-learn the nature of drawing and its possibilities of expression. He is the type of artist whose impulses are experimental, the outcomes of whose research are unpredictable and revelatory. He has opted to explore some of the most basic aspects of drawing: the subject on which he focuses with such intensity, the theme of his creative meditations, is drawing itself. More precisely, his work is concerned with the relation of the drawn image to our perceptions of the phenomenal world, and our feelings about it. He works within certain self-imposed constraints, the better to direct our attention to the process of image generation, the less to distract us from the image itself. His subject matter is thus limited to 'simple things that just stay there, that don't move away...' By a kind of paradox he succeeds in making the most basic geometric forms - a cube, a sphere, a disc - come to a surprising life of their own. He uses colour only occasionally, and in recent works he has taken the object itself out of his reckoning with the visible, to make the space thus emptied the subject of his regard. He thus translates what is invisible into something actual, marks on paper. The innumerable repetitive arc-like strokes, their scale determined by the span of the arm or fore-arm, or the twist of the wrist, out of which Jones conjures his images have an undeniably objective presence: we are always aware of an action on material. The objects of his intent contemplation, or the detail of a solid surface as it meets space, are defined in the dark and light of charcoal, graphite or ink on paper. Drawing becomes complicit with the act of looking, becomes a kind of knowing." From A Note on the Drawings of Timothy Emlyn Jones, by Mel Gooding, 2001
Knowing What the Eye Likes
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