After studying art at Lowestoft in East Suffolk, Mr Jones went on to attend London College of Fashion. <\/p>\n
However, a serious illnesses forced him to pause his studies. <\/p>\n
During his long recovery he turned to academic research on architecture and began crafting his first neo classical models.<\/p>\n
“I just find it incredibly beautiful,” he said. <\/p>\n
“It’s almost too delicate to survive – and yet it does. It’s everywhere.”<\/p>\n
It was during this period that he met Ms Gray. <\/p>\n
The two began working together, with their first paid commission in 1985 where Ms Gray assisted him. <\/p>\n
Since then they have spent the past 40 years creating intricate one-eighth scale models of neo classical interiors, focusing on the period between 1760 and 1800.<\/p>\n
Their work has been commissioned by a number of high-profile people and has earned them numerous awards. <\/p>\n
These include models of both Sledmere House’s drawing room in Yorkshire and the Painted Room from Spencer House. <\/p>\n
The latter was originally intended as a gift for Diana, Princess of Wales and was described at the time by Lord Rothschild, who had restored Spencer House, as “a masterpiece, a work of genius”.<\/p>\n
Mr Jones has held major exhibitions in Bond Street, created artwork for Russian palaces, and completed plasterwork in a grand Robert Adam mansion in Portland Square, London.<\/p>\n
The pair’s decades of working together has led to their long-term project; their home in Swansea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After studying art at Lowestoft in East Suffolk, Mr Jones went on to attend London College of Fashion.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-41931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}