Jeanette Jones Artist Profile by Intern Hannah Smith

Jeanette Jones is a Seattle Artist who grew up in Daytona Beach Florida, who is drawn to the stories of women in history. She creates the portraits with bold outlines of colorful spaces which are filled with flowers and other objects. Some of her paintings look like stained glass because of the lines, the rich color, and the contrast between the different spaces. In some of her past works she had painted Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keefe.

In her show I feel bad for you? she has created a series of portraits of Pablo Picasso’s mistresses and wives. After reading a biography about Picasso, Jones was inspired by the tragic ends of Marie Therese, Dora Maar and his other conquests. Picasso manipulated, mistreated, and tossed away many women destroying their self confidence causing them to kill themselves. Her paintings beautifully capture the melancholy of the women, and the crossing lines enhance the feeling of brokenness.

Jeanette Jones’ work tells stories about different women whose naiveté about love caused their ultimate downfalls.