About Sal Jones
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Sal Jones is a London-based figurative painter, best known for her emotive portraits that emphasise transient feelings over precise representation. Her often dialogue-inspired titles suggest narratives without explicitly revealing them, inviting the viewer to engage personally with the work.
Sal has exhibited extensively in group and solo shows, including with ING Discerning Eye, the Society of Women Artists and the Royal Cambrian Academy. She has been shortlisted for Wells Art Contemporary (WAC 2023) and the Wales Contemporary Art Prize (2022), longlisted for the BEEP Painting Biennial (2024) and the Women United Art Prize (2021), and was longlisted for the Jackson's Open Art Prize (2016) — winning that prize's interim oil painting award.
Her work is held in the collections of De Montfort University, The Fenella Fielding Foundation and Space Park Leicester, as well as in private collections in the UK and internationally.
At Eye Feast, Regent's Park Gallery is showing two of Sal's small paintings: A Trifle Trampled On and A Toast! — both from a series portraying acts of defiance, disrupting manners by dancing on and fighting with the food. The paintings were inspired by the controversial 1960s Czechoslovak film Daisies.