“The Art of Life Through The Love Of Art”: The enchanting, storytelling Art of Jerome and Jeromyah Jones

To celebrate the just-concluded Women’s Month, and to record for posterity, the talented father and son visual artists Jerome and Jeromyah Jones, released from their collection, eight works depicting women of African descent, which “not only honour the great work they have done, but a spectrum of what [the] Earth’s First Lady has become.”

The enchanting collection includes: The Indigo of Ife – Portrait of Beautician Ife Robinson; Visions of A New Migration – Portrait of Afro City Tours founder, Monica Esparza; The Reign of Queen Rain; Yewande – inspired by singer/activist Yewande Austin and artist Yewande Lewis; Queen African House; Martha and Mary; Sona Jobarteh – The Gambia’s first female Kora player to come from a griot family; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf –  Former President of Liberia and first female President in Africa’s history.

“Whether painting a beautician on the mountain top or a Queen’s African shop, our mission is to show their elegance and their relevance. Some paintings show the daughter of Africa far from home with a vision that roams back to the land of her Mother,” Jeromyah tells us.

For over 40 years, his father, Jerome W. Jones, Jr. has been using his original paintings to teach “The Art of Life Through The Love Of Art” to inspire the young and old to use their gifts to uplift others. According to his official bio, Jerome – who specialises in original portraits, landscapes and still life paintings – has over 100 autographed portraits in his “Ingenious Artistic Minds (I AM)” collection of paintings and his work has been collected by some high-profile A-listers including of Stevie Wonder, Evander Holyfield and Michael Jordan.

Following in his father’s footsteps, Jeromyah is also a very accomplished artist who describes himself as “a visionary for justice, writer of truth, painter of life, and poet of love.” He says his mission is to design and redefine the G.A.M.E. (Great Art Music and Education).

Collectively, the father and son’s work has been exhibited in the US at the Museum of the Bible, the Hampton University Museum, the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of VA, The Gallery at Main Street Station, Capital One, and the Trumpet Awards Celebration.

Their work is  also in the permanent collection of US embassies in Tunisia and Djibouti; the American College of Greece in Athens; the Africentric Alternative School in Canada; the African Union Mission in Washington DC; the August Wilson African American Cultural Center in Pittsburgh PA; and more other notable institutions, and has been featured in a number of US and international media outlets.