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Media - Paintings
Website - www.scottwesleyjones.com
Email - [email protected]
Scott Wesley Jones was born in 1958 in Waterloo, Iowa. He received a Bachelor of Science
degree in Art Education from the University of Northern Iowa in 1986.
He obtained a Master's Degree in Art Education in 1994 from Northern Arizona University. He
has taught in the Crane Elementary School District in Yuma, Arizona since 1988, first as an
elementary art specialist for 14 years, then as a Language Arts teacher for five. Jones also
taught painting and drawing classes at Arizona Western College from 1990-1996. He has shown
his work in a variety of juried group and solo exhibitions in Iowa, Arizona and California
since 1983.
He currently teaches art at Centennial Middle School in Yuma.
Artist Statement
Art is seduction.
When art is in the presence of a viewer, there are moments
In some of these moments, a spark is instantaneous and clues us into greater and stronger
moments yet to come. In other cases, a viewer anticipates a meaningful interaction and is left
wanting. Sometimes that is because he or she did not arrive at that moment prepared for the
encounter. Other times the moment is lost because the art was not developed enough to sustain
the attraction.
However, if an engagement is initiated it can begin on a thousand different levels by any of
hundreds of possible elements. It’s like the attraction shared by two people – it
may be initiated by an unconscious scent or a split second glance. Or, it maybe an attraction
that finds its realization through lengthy conversations and an accumulation of unintended
circumstances. The key to connection, at that point, is a mutual willingness to acknowledge
significance as it has unfolded over time.
In art, it is the same process of fruition. The link can be lost if an idea is unfulfilled.
Perhaps there was no convincing idea fostered within the art to begin with. At times, the
worth of the art is unrequited because an unreliable lens has distorted the eye of the viewer.
And as with human consummation, the relationship of the viewer to a work of art maybe an act
of mad deep love that sustains both the soul of the viewer and the credence of the work for a
lifetime. Other times the relation one might have with a work is an illicit fling with all its
fractures, contradictions and frustrations.
Even, and especially, at moments of the most intense closeness the catalyst of and for that
exact moment is longing. In the presence of the strongest intimacy, a sense of loss pervades
the deepest sense of completion.
And so it is in art.; we can never have it. We can only stand in awe of it. It is the awe
felt in the arms of your lover. In the end, we are left to wonder at the vagueness of our
wonder.
January 2010
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