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Carys Elen Jones is a Welsh painter and illustrator raised in Carmarthenshire and now living in Cardiff.

Her work predominantly focuses on Welsh subject matter through portraits and landscapes but also is praised for her versatility in different creative endeavors.  


She also creates light-hearted caricatures and illustrations of Welsh culture with her Paent of Milk project.

She is 1/4 of the band Angel Hotel in which she plays bass and sings. 

 

Carys has taken on commercial architectural illustration and this portfolio can be accessed if requested.
 

Education

2016 – 2018 

MFA (Master of Fine Art)

Cardiff Metropolitan University

2013 – 2016

BA (Hons) Illustration

Cardiff Metropolitan University

2012 – 2013

UAL Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

 Carmarthen School of Art and Design

Features and Exhibitions

 

Golwg (2022)

Ty Swn Magazine (Issue 1 June 2021)

Sky Arts Portrait Artist of The Year (2018)

Rage, Rage against the Dying of the Light, Exhibition, Canfas Gallery (Cardigan), 2023

Waterloo Tearooms 2019

Made in Roath Open House Show 2018
Rogue Venus 2018
Phosphorus Collective, Tiny Rebel 2018 
Refugee Rights Campaign Benefit Gig and Art Auction 2018
OFF TRACK, Jacob’s Market 2017
MFA End of Year Exhibition 2017
Thresholds, Arcade Cardiff 2017
Frontal Lobe / Phosphorus Collective: Psyclops 2017  
Affordable Art Show, Cardiff Made 2016
Journey, Greenspace Gallery, Carmarthen 2016
Encounter, Cardiff Metropolitan University – 2016

 

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