Patrick H. Jones begins each painting with observational drawings gathered from both lived and deliberately sought-out experience. These fragments are spliced, repeated and collaged, their context shifted to generate new and often ambiguous narratives. Jones embraces this instability: how imagery can become familiar, confusing, satirical or revealing depending on how it is assembled and read. Titles serve as clues rather than explanations, and he values the plurality of readings that viewers bring to the work.
In his recent works, Jones takes fatherhood as his point of departure. Lush, floral patterns radiate joy and exuberance, and within them demons and jesters are concealed and stacked, each poised to tip into the other. Anxiety and possibility emerge as near-identical states, distinguished only by the thoughts we attach to them. Across the works, Jones considers the daily choreography of early parenthood, the low hum of dread fed by the news cycle and doom scroll, and the strange recognition of his own childhood receding as he watches his child’s begin. The paintings sit between the two possibilities: whether they read as hopeful or foreboding depends on where the eye settles, and Jones leaves that choice to the viewer.
Patrick H. Jones was born in 1987 and lives and works in London, UK. Recent solo exhibitions include: Crowded Emotions, Duarte Sequeira, Seoul, 2026; Emotion has no hierarchy, Rita’s, London, 2026; Dallas Art Fair, The Sunday Painter, Dallas, USA, 2025; Target, Duarte Sequeira, Braga, 2024; 1, LINSEED, Shanghai, 2024; Array (tableau), Galerie PCP, Paris, 2023; Dusk, LINSEED Projects, Shanghai, 2022; After Dad, The Sunday Painter, London, 2022; Limbes, Galerie PCP, Paris, 2021; CONDO 2020, The Sunday Painter, London, 2020; Juggle, Plaza Plaza, London, UK, 2018. Recent group exhibitions include: Frieze, Duarte Sequeira, Seoul, 2026; Independent Art Fair, The Sunday Painter, New York City, USA, 2026; The Shape of Being, Duarte Sequeira, Seoul, South Korea, 2025; The Third Perspective curated by Francesca Gavin, The Merode, Brussels, 2025; Little tree, Ginny on Fredrick, London, UK, 2024; Across the Pond, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York City, USA, 2024; ART OnO, Duarte Sequeria, Seoul, 2024; Patrick H. Jones & Gillian Lowndes, Frieze London, London, 2021; Reconfigured, (curated by Rose Easton), Timothy Taylor, New York, 2021; DREAMTIGERS, The Gallery Soho, London, UK, 2018; SET 24, The Art Academy, London, 2018; Artist of the Day 2018, Flowers Gallery, London, 2018; New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London, 2018.