ART & GRAPHICS. As a painter he worked chiefly in watercolour, painting portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. David Jones - Wood and Copper Engravings Published on May 1, 2013 Catalogue showing a selection of wood and copper engravings available from Goldmark Gallery. From early childhood, drawing was his constant occupation.
He was one of the finest British watercolourists and printmakers of his generation and a gifted poet. Wood engraving is a printmaking and letterpress printing technique, in which an artist works an image or matrix of images into a block of wood. David Jones is regarded as one of Britain's most important 20th Century artists. He studied at Camberwell School of Art and then Westminster School of Art before entering Eric Gill’s community at Ditchling in 1921, where he joined the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic and was taught wood engraving by Desmond Chute, later leaving with Gill for Wales to develop and refine his techniques. At Jones Engraving we use Macintosh and Agfa imaging technology, which enables us to work from your graphic files (.PDF, .AI, .EPS, Tiff - bitmap) or camera ready black and white artwork.
A painter, engraver, poet and author, Jones was born in Kent. Description: David Jones (1895-1974) The Tempest, wood-engraving, 1926, signed and dated in pencil, with two other wood-engravings from, The Chester Play of the Deluge, including, Antidiluvian Society and The Deluge, printed by the Golden Cockerel Press, 1927, all on laid Japan paper, with full margins,the first impression 180 x 130mm. Walter David Jones CH, CBE (known as David Jones, 1 November 1895 – 28 October 1974) was both a painter and one of the first-generation British modernist poets. ‘Everyman’, wood engraving In 1916 Jones was shot during the Battle of the Somme and invalided in 1918.
Molds made from the engravings used for vulcanizing rubber. He was also a wood-engraver and designer of inscriptions. David Jones along with Eric Gill is remembered as a virtuoso of the technique of engraving; these examples of his craft serve as a lasting reminder of his talent. We look forward to … The Clover Hill Editions’ The Book of Jonah constitutes a new edition using Jones’s wood engravings.
He was born in London in 1895 to a Welsh father and English mother.