Kathy Jones was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University. She is greatly influenced by her experience as a Californian, and by the affinity she feels for the Bay Area Figurative painters. Her paintings are about silence, solitude, space, and shadows—about the moments between actions. She paints people waiting, or gazing, or pausing, or moving from one place to another.

The surface of the painting is as important to her as the image. She is always experimenting with surfaces and textures. She explores color relationships and the unexpected juxtapositions that happen while painting. To her, the surface of the painting and layers of paint must be rich and exotic, the colors luminous and mysterious. She pulls colors up – push them one against the other and look for places where the colors make the most of each other.

She never knows where a painting will end up. The backgrounds and moods emerge and change as the work progresses. Her goal is to create paintings that are challenging and provocative. She hopes that people who see her work are moved to bring their own history to the painting and to tell their own stories.