DEBORAH JONES: Famous teddy bear artist - Artist biography - Auction prices for her paintings - Signature - Picture Gallery - ArtUK - Artist photo - Paintings for sale - Prints for sale
Deborah Jones (1921-2012) was born in South Wales but moved to Bristol as a young girl. where she worked for the Bristol Aeroplane Company. Later she moved to London and started her artistic career by displaying her canvasses on the railings along the Bayswater Road. Soon her artwork captured the attention of many admirers leading to exhibitions all over the UK and in other countries including France, Italy and America. At her London exhibition held in 1975 Cary Grant bought all the 20 or so pictures on display and it is said Frank Sinatra also owned her work. Deborah Jones’ paintings ranged from pictures of teddy bears and dollies to Still Life and industrial landscapes. It is said her love of teddy bears came from her treasured Teddy Lexi who survived a 1941 raid on their road in Bristol.
As well as painting, Deborah Jones also had a theatrical career, working on designs at the British Film Studio and West End theatres. She worked for Margot Fonteyn as a dresser at the Royal Ballet and was assistant to Oliver Messel during productions of the Christopher Fry plays and opera at Glyndebourne. She also worked for a season at Stratford. In the mid 1970s she moved back to Bristol.
Deborah Jones was widely travelled but painting was her great love and she brought to it an original style encompassing trompe l’oeil pictures, teddy bears and dolls, old back street antique shops, Still Life and much, much more. She died on Christmas Eve 2012 at Bristol. She never married.
Art galleries offering Deborah Jones' original paintings and prints of her favourite subjects - teddy bears, dolls, nursery scenes, Victorian antique shops etc include the following: Joanna Cole Fine Art, Grimes House, Cornwall Galleries and Arnot Gallery (based in New York).
Since 2011, the record price for Deborah Jones at auction is approaching US$1,000.
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January 2021.
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