Larkin Gallery, Inc.
405 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
508.487.6111
Larkin Gallery, Inc.
586 Main Street
Harwich Port, MA 02646
508.487.3111
Tom Wilson Jones
Tom Wilson Jones is a Cape Cod based abstract expressionist.
Provincetown Exhibit:
May 22 to June 9, 2026
Reception:
May 22
6pm
Image:
She Sells
Sea Shells,
oil, charcoal,
graphite, cold wax on paper
30 x 22"
"My work emerges without intent. I do not pre-plan, sketch, or refer to any objective stimuli. Working in oils, I do not lay out a pallette, but begin each new effort by simply ‘besmirching’ my canvas or, more often, paper. I grab a tool, a color, perhaps a medium, sometimes a ground... acrylics, gesso or charcoal...almost by their proximity, and make marks. Each mark will inform the next. I want my work to evolve free of anything other than what I see at the moment. The challenge lives within what I see...and how my experience then interprets and gives energy to successive moves. A sort of chess game with myself. Process always is subordinate to instinct. I am aware of a certain line that beckons...one that can be traced from Matisse to Mondrian to Diebenkorn, and sometimes, de Kooning. That line arrives from countless hours of observation, seduction, and appreciation, and without apology. In the end, art emerges - with a little luck. Patience, flexibility, reflection, and the occasional courage to reject the apparent and perhaps easy solution are a premium. It is nothing but an intimate dialogue with self, expressed in paint." TWJ
Kentuckian Tom Wilson Jones was a constant drafter as a youngster, finding his way to painting in adulthood, and while largely self-taught, he has been blessed with living and studying in such art-centric places as Old Lyme, Brussels, St. Louis and Provincetown.
His years as an expat corporate guy provided access and stimulus to study masters in Europe’s art centers and galleries, and to learn from working artists in America’s greatest art colonies. He especially took from the Belgian surrealists, and the mid-century New York School and Bay Area Figurative movements in this country, marrying these affections with his own formal education in philosophy and psychology (which, he believes, tend to make abstraction come more easily.) These are all welcomed and learned influences.
Jones has shown at art centers throughout the Cape. His work is in private collections including New England, Manhattan, and Palm Beach. Larkin Gallery is set to debut his featured exhibition at Larkin Gallery, building upon his previous featured showcases.
