Jules Buck Jones

StatementCVExhibitions

Jules Buck Jones creates an ongoing series of playful and dynamic, abstracted images of landscape, flora, and fauna that focus on the patterns and rhythms of nature. Jones leans into his lyrical vocabulary of mark-making, washes, and line work to visually bridge the movement of sky, water, earth, and a variety of lifeforms. Pulling from direct experience, observation, memory and imagination, Jones recalls and translates the cadence, harmony, and dissonance of weather patterns, river systems, animal songs, plant physiology, ecosystems, the cosmos, and other natural phenomena into his compositions.

Jones earned his MFA in Painting at the University of Texas at Austin, TX, in 2008 and a BA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, in 2005. He has had artist residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME; The Light House Works, Fisher Island, NY; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN; the Everglades National Park, Homestead, FL. His work has been exhibited extensively throughout Texas and his native Virginia. He has received commissions from Gensler, Houston; Dell Children’s Hospital, Austin; and the City of Austin. Jones currently lives and works in Wimberley and teaches drawing and painting at Texas State University in San Marcos.

Jules Buck Jones; Secret Springs 3, 2025; ink on paper; 22 x 30 inches
Jules Buck Jones; Riparian Rhythm 1, 2024; airbrush, watercolor, ink on paper; 30 x 22 inches
Jules Buck Jones; Shadow Shapes, 2024; watercolor, ink on paper; 30 x 22 inches
Jules Buck Jones; Riparian Rhythm 3, 2024; watercolor, ink on paper; 30 x 22 inches
Jules Buck Jones; Secret Springs 1, 2024; ink on paper; 30 x 22 inches
Jules Buck Jones; Secret Springs 2, 2024; watercolor, ink on paper; 30 x 22 inches
Jules Buck Jones; Desert Floor, 2024; watercolor, ink on paper; 30 x 22 inches
Jules Buck Jones; Hand Me My Head (El Lobo), 2017; ink, pencil on paper; 30 x 22 in.
Jules Buck Jones; Hand Me My Head (Myotis), 2017; ink, pencil on paper; 30 x 22 in.
Jules Buck Jones; Between Two Worlds, 2017; ink,watercolors,pastels,pencils, collage; 60 x 40 in.