About the Artist
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Frederic Jones is an award winning artist with a number of media and techniques under his belt. He currently is concentrating his artistic efforts on Western landscape paintings in colored pencil, acrylic, oil and mixed media. He holds bachelors and masters degrees in design and fine art from Florida State University where he also served on the art and theatre department faculties. He has also been on the faculties of San Francisco Academy of Art University, Florida State University, John F Kennedy University, Western Design Institute and Diablo Valley College where he taught design, perspective, drawing and architectural illustration, including colored pencil techniques. He has exhibited in juried shows in Florida and California and was Artist in Residence at North Florida Community College. His drawings, paintings and sculpture are in many private collections and have been commissioned by the US Air Force and other institutions for architectural installations. He has published 35 books with major publishers many about art, art history, drawing and design. These include Digital Photography, Just the Steps For Dummies published by Wyley, Digital Video Production, Prentice Hall (in English, Japanese and Spanish); How to Do Everything with Digital Video, McGraw Hill, Osborne, Interior Architecture Graphics, Drawing and Perspective, .William Kaufmann, Inc, etc.
He currently shares a studio with his artist and illustrator wife Judith Kaye Jones and artist and children’s book author and illustrator daughter Mary Atchison. Dr. Jones is also a licensed Medical Psychologist and has a private practice in the Northern California Mountains.
Selected Exhibitions
Group Show, Sarasota Art Assn (3 years)
Group Show, Florida State University (several)
Group Show, North Florida Art Assn (5 years)
Group Show, Lemoyne Art Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Solo Show and Artist in Residence Semester, North Florida Community College
Solo Show, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
Solo Show, Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley, CA
Faculty Show, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
Group Show, First Christian Church, Vallejo, CA (4 years)
Group Show, Intermountain Fair, McArthur, CA (6 years) Paintings won several 1st and 2nd places in show.
Group Show, Gifts and Gallery, Fall River Mills, CA
Group Show, Mt Shasta City Gallery
Solo Show, Mountain Valley Health Centers, Burney, CA
Artist in Residence, Whiskeytown National Park, Redding, CA (two works in permanent collection)
Recent Works
