Michael Grey Jones

Michael Grey Jones is our new tutor for the 2008 season

Michael was, for a few years, a parttime tutor at Eton College Drawing School having been the "Artist in Residence" at Oundle Public School in Northants. During this time he was steadily building a solid reputation as a professional working painter which was the challenge he set himself on graduating from the Royal Academy School London in 1977. He won a much coveted three year painting scholarship to the Royal Academy, one of only six awarded nationally each year.

Michael has held several one man show in Maidstone, Oundle and Eton, and has exhibited regularly on open shows such as The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Watercolour Society and The Royal Society of British Artists where he was recently elected a member.

There have been many important prizes along the way including the Jeffrey Archer award at the Watercolur Society and the top prize at the Sunday Times/Singer & Friedlander watercolour competition which takes place every year at the Mall Galleries.

Michael works on the spot whenever possible but with paintings taking sometimes six or eight weeks to complete, a certain amount of additional work has to be done in the studio.

The choice of medium is always dictated by the subject. Oils, Acylic, Gouache or Watercolur or even when necessary a mixture, typically Gouache with Watercolour, or Oils over Acylic. He's happy to bend the rules from time-to-time.