British artist Lucy Jones has been described by art critic Jackie
Wullschlager as the most exciting English colorist of her generation''
With a clear and often brutally frank vision, her paintings connect a
journey through exterior landscapes and interior worlds. Awkward Beauty
is the first publication to draw together both her portraits and
landscape paintings produced over the past 25 years, tracing the
evolution of a distinctively vibrant painterly language, which she has
used to describe the world, herself and, most recently, other people.
Illustrated with more than 100 color plates, the book demonstrates
Jones's broad emotional range, from densely chromatic and vigorously
wrought vistas painted in the British countryside, to her raw and
powerfully expressive presentations of the figure, addressing the
vulnerabilities and the strengths of Jones's own disabilities, and
society's way of viewing difference in others.