About Me — Christopher P Jones
I’m a writer on art and history… and I’m a painter too
From a young age, I knew I wanted a different sort of life. I grew up in a sleepy English town with a close family, but when it came to how I saw my own life in the future, I didn’t gravitate to the typical family and career path.
I wanted something else. I wanted to live and know what else was possible. I also wanted to travel.
When I was growing up, I discovered I had a talent for drawing and painting. I went on to study art through school and college and began visiting galleries and reading books about art and artists like Rothko and Kandinsky. Soon enough I was hooked. To be creative and travel, what a prospect! By the time I was ready to enter the world of work I had an aspiration to make a living as an artist — following dreams of never having a “real” job but being creative all day, every day.
I painted and drew daily in my early twenties, having been to university to study Maths and Philosophy. Then one day I looked around me and noticed I had enough paintings to put on my first exhibition. My old art teacher happened to own a gallery, and when I found out I could hire it and hang my own paintings inside, I rolled up my sleeves and leaped on the chance.
