Group Art Show

 I'll be part of this great line-up at Giant Robot next week! If you're in LA and looking to get some original art generated by humans come along. 

Exhibition!

March 24th sees the opening of my solo show at Center Stage Gallery, Burbank. It runs to April 30th. I have 100 gouache paintings from my travels around the US on show. All art for sale plus a book, prints and postcards will be available. More details here 
All the work can be previewed and bought online here

On Instagram I created nine special video collages featuring some of the paintings in the show and the locations in which I made them. Check them out here

"Jones Paints America" the art of Matt Jones now online and available for viewing and purchase. Use your arrow keys to navigate the carousel. Hover over an image in the carousel to display the size, medium and price. Call 818 259 1598 or email hello@centerstagegallery.com to purchase. The gallery ships both in the USA and Internationally.

Or come into Center Stage Gallery 
Mon thru Fri 12 - 8, Sat/Sun 12-6 
847 Hollywood Way, Burbank CA 91505

And buy the book here: http://store.creativetalentnetwork.com/axProductDetails.php…

http://artgallery.creativetalentnetwork.com/#/11

At Home With Monsters

There's an incredible exhibition on at the moment at LACMA. 'At Home With Monsters' is Guillermo Del Toro's collection of macabre and ghoulish paraphernalia and artifacts from his movies and those he loves. Animation fans will find some treasures too including visual development work for Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' by Eyvind Earle and Paul Julian designs for UPA's 'Tell tale Heart' an adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe tale, a favourite author of Del Toro's.

Here's a quick cut of the artifacts OI found most interesting (among hundreds!)

Ronald Searle Fundraiser

I'm currently harassing every artistic, creative, cartoon loving, Searle appreciating friend and acquaintance (thank you Facebook!) to contribute original art to a project that's close to my heart.
I've maintained my Searle 'tribute' blog since 2006, subsequently got to know the great man himself and came to have a scholarly level of knowledge on his career and work. Now I'm living in the U.S. and following the Searle trail here I'm planning an exhibition of mostly unseen Searle work at the Cartoon Museum, San Francisco in November.  To compliment the show I'm working on a book collecting his entire 'American era' oeuvre - all the fantastic colour work he did in the 60s for HOLIDAY magazine, Look, Life etc.  I'm raising the funds required to ship original artwork, printing costs for the catalogue and generally put the show on.  I'm doing this as a labour of love and to raise money for The Cartoon Art Museum (a registered charity) and to bring Searle's work to an American audience.

I've made a special blog here showcasing all the incredible art I'm receiving from an international group of today's top animation artists and illustrators.

Here is my contribution with the 'rough' pass below. I will be contributing both pieces to the auction which will launch mid July.  The rough is in some ways more pleasing than the finished piece-looser, more spontaneous and perhaps more Searle-esque?

It's my interpretation of one of my favourite Searle characters Mr Lemonhart, who was part of an advertising campaign for LemonHart Rum which Searle illustrated throughout the 60s.