SHANE JONES ART BLOG

Bedside Lamp , 2025, oil on canvas, 92 x 51.25 cm   I've always responded to paintings that have a sense of privacy, intimacy or secrecy...

Distant , 2025, oil on linen, 40.5 x 50.75 cm   The Tao Te Ching (Way of Life) , by Lao Tzu, is a book of short stanzas touching on the nat...

  All Things Must Pass, oil on canvas, 73.75 x 61 cm Occasionally I make realistic paintings that are not about what we see but about an id...

I've always admired the drawings of Holbein, Hockney and Degas. These drawings were done in thinned oil paint on oil sketch paper. I lik...

Ballarat has a HERITAGE WEEK every year in early May. Some friends of Deborah and I, Bryan Putt and Megan Finlayson, celebrate the birthday ...

I rarely make sketches as ideas for paintings but sometimes I do make a quick sketch, not only to see what an idea for a picture could look ...

  Light at the Door , 2025, oil on canvas, 91 x 61 cm I was walking through the house recently when I saw a band of light stream across the ...

  For the past 6 years, Trudy McLauchlan has curated an exhibition titled One Hundred Faces. As the pics show, the exhibition is displayed i...

  Near Winter's End, 2004, oil on canvas, 76 x 51 cm There are a lots of trees growing along the side of Lake Wendouree so this painting...

Winter Light, Lake Wendouree, 2024, oil on linen, 61.5 x 91.5 cm I've painted quite a few pictures of Lake Wendouree in Ballarat. Althou...

  Sink with Running Tap , 2025, oil on canvas, 83.75 x 83.75 cm. Bathroom, 1995, oil on canvas, 60.75 x 60.75 cm I've always loved image...

This painting was is an invented picture inspired by the sun setting over Lake Wendouree. Every time I circuit the lake, its light and colou...

My partner, Deborah Klein, and I have just returned to Melbourne after seeing an incredible exhibition of the work of Magritte. Hosted by th...