He’s been held in a million hands, tossed on hundreds of beds and left in countless airports. He is Louis Jones, prolific artist and illustrator of no less than eight New York Times bestseller book covers or frontispiece illustrations–and you’ve likely given him much of the same treatment… VIEW ARTICLE FROM HAMPTON ROADS MAGAZINE>>
The Jones Family was featured on an episode of “Living the Life”, which aired on January 19, 2006 on ABC’s Family Channel to an international audience of 84 million people.
JONES ART GALLERY ENJOYS BEING IN THE CENTER OF THINGS By Irene Bowers (As seen in The Beacon on March 17, 2005) Jones Art Gallery is finding its bit of the sun within the shadows of two big storefronts in Town Center. You’ll find Jones Art tucked between P.F. Chang’s and Men’s Wearhouse. No national franchise […]
On a rainy afternoon in May, Louis Jones drove his van to Old Dominion University’s Foreman Field. A fence barred him from entering or peering through, so he pulled himself up to look over. He made half a dozeN trips between the fence and his van, where he sketched two drawings to submit for the […]
I painted it before I went to bed that night, on the 11th. I was hurting so bad, like everybody else. I had to find some way I could live with it. And I wanted to let some of the pain go… VIEW ARTICLE FROM THE VIRGINIAN PILOT>>
To Louis Jones, it seemed a simple assignment. Draw a house. Heck, go ahead and paint a house. After all, that was the title of the book he was illustrating: “A Painted House”. This is not just any book. It’s a John Grisham book. John Grisham of “The Firm”, “The Pelican Brief” and a shelf-full […]
DIFFERENT POSTER ACCOMPLISHES ITS TASK By Deborah Markham, Staff Writer (As seen in The Beacon on June 11, 2000) It’s different. That’s what admirers and critics say about the 27th annual Neptune Festival limited edition poster, now on sale. And that’s what the board of directors looked for, said Nancy Creech, Neptune Festival president. They were trying to […]
Local artist Louis Jones sued, basically put everything on the line, to get credit for his work from the makers of the film, What Dreams May Come, whose stunning scenes the artist claims came from art he created years ago. But before the case went to court, Jones settled for an undisclosed sum and more […]
Hot summer nights we’d lie in the cool grass of our front yard and watch the sky. Every shining star a miracle and a friend to us. The lightning bugs would do their best to mimic the twinkling and do their own “dance of light” to our delight. We’d collect them in a Mason jar […]
The stunning visuals in What Dreams May Come, the $75 million version of the afterlife committed to celluloid, were so poignant that it won a Best Visual Effects Oscar. Artist Louis Jones knows their power. He calls them three years of his best work, images he painted to be book-cover art. But when Jones saw the […]