Mar 2010 update

........just found out Whiteknuckle New Standard playing cards has won deck of the month in the Netherlands. Check out the decks first critical review at,

http://www.dxpo-playingcards.com/xpo/deck-month/pages/deck-month.htm

Feb 2010 Update

................and we're away. Whiteknuckle New Standard playing cards are finally here in Australia and available for sale. Click here if you want to buy a deck/decks.

There will be signed A4 and A3 prints of the card designs available soon.

There will also be high quality authentic Whiteknuckle leather card cases available, each one hand made by the King of Spades himself, who is a leatherwork adept.

e-mail brett@seaofpain.com to enquire

The entire Sea of Pain site is going to be pulled apart and put back together after the big exhibition in April/May in Maryborough, with some Brett A. Jones framed pastel originals up on the site for sale for the first time (unless they all sell at the exhibition). I'm trying to work my way back to the graphite studio but the pastels are a lot of fun.

In the meantime grab a couple of decks of these first edition Whiteknuckle New Standards while you can as there are only a very limited amount and they are already going very fast, there will probably be one more update before the exhibition to remind you all it's the 24th of April in Maryborough, all the best to all who have been watching my progress on these cards for the last couple of years. I'm finally finished, who'd have thought?
Brett A. Jones

Nov 2009 Update

The Whiteknuckle playing card designs are finished. They are currently being manufactured in the U.S. and will be available for sale early in 2010. Wow, what a mind blowing journey across the tundra that was. I'll write all about it later, in fact there will be some fairly major changes to the Sea of Pain website in 2010, but for now I'm happy to just get some of the finished designs up to show you.
I'll be having my second solo exhibition using all the playing card material in the form of the entire deck framed individually in A4 size and all hung on the gallery wall together as a complete design. It will be held at the Maryborough Art Gallery in April 2010 in my art societies excellent new home in the foyer of the Old Wintergarden theatre on Kent St. Maryborough. This venue is perfect to show off the entire deck to it's best advantage and will be a very big night. All are welcome. Further details will be posted in the exhibitions and displays section as they become known.

An article about the cards will be published in "Artists Palette" magazine around March, 2010.

If you would like to pre-order a deck of Whiteknuckle New Standard playing cards please email me, www.whiteknucklecards.com/contact and leave your details and you will be guaranteed a deck when they become available early 2010. The decks will be of the highest quality, poker sized, printed by U.S.P.C.C. in Ohio.

Price per deck will be $12 AUD including postage and handling anywhere in Australia. Overseas and multiple orders most welcome, postage to be calculated. Please don't send money or cheques, just contact details(preferably e-mail) you will be contacted with payment details as soon as the cards become available. There will only be 10 000 decks in the first print run, and are bound to be instant collectors items judging by the absolutely overwhelming reaction so far and the hundreds and hundreds of orders already received so far from Australia, England, Germany, and France just from word of mouth. This update is the first online showing of any Whiteknuckle New Standard playing card designs anywhere, so if you would like a pack from the first edition, get in quick, first in best dressed (contact details won't be divulged to any outside mailing lists, to be used solely for the reasons described).

Signed A4 card designs on 260gsm glossy photo paper are also available framed and unframed (would look great on games room wall), please e-mail brett@seaofpain.com for details or enquiries.

Workshops and Awards sections also been updated.

O.K. here's a taste of 5000+ hours of effort, hope you like them. Thank you for being so patient and continuing to support the Sea of Pain website, it's much appreciated,
Brett A. Jones

JUNE 2009 UPDATE

This update is very overdue, due to the ongoing obsession over the playing cards I am designing. I know I said there would be some previews months ago, but I am keeping the designs close to my chest until Aug-Sept, when they will be close to being launched into an unsuspecting world as the new standard in playing cards.

WATCH THIS SPACE.

I will be conducting a 2-day workshop in Kenilworth (inland from Nambour over the Blackbutt Range, Qld) at the end of Sept, "Secrets of Freehand Drawing". Please see the 'Drawing Classes and Workshops' section for further details.

I am involved in a group exhibition with my two star pupils, Pam Price and Jacob Ditchmen. They have been coming to my classes for over a year and have both improved hand over fist. The exhibition opens on the 8th June, 2009 at 5.30 p.m. at the Old Warehouse Gallery, Kent St. Maryborough and runs for 2 weeks. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The display will encompass a wide range of mediums and subjects. Please ring me on (07) 41287682, or gallery director Ann Bowden on (07) 41231614 for further details.

'Art Show Awards' section has also been updated.

The next update should be around Aug- Sept and will definitly include some of the Whiteknuckle card designs. In the meantime, please check out the Whiteknuckle cards website at www.whiteknucklecards.com .

Also check out the updated links section and have a look at the Maryborough Art Society website (of which I am a member). The society is attracting new members all the time with it's progressive and freindly atmosphere and will shortly be moving to better premises, so if you are interested in joining please ring Ann Bowden (Gallery Director) on (07)41 231614 or Margaret Johnston (Society Stalwart) on 41 234577. All are welcome.

Thank you for visiting the Seaofpain website, your traffic is very much appreciated,
Brett A. Jones

November 2008 update,
Welcome to the Sea of Pain Fine Art Productions website.
-I am currently designing an entire pack of playing cards. It is proving to be a monumental job, and has crossed the border into obsession to the exclusion of all else out of sheer necessity to have any chance of a completion date. I'm very pleased with the results so far, watch this space for previews hopefully sometime around the end of 2008. They will be worth the wait.
Thank you for your continuing support, the website receives a lot of hits from all over the world. Once the cards are in production, I will be back into the graphite, and trying my hand at pastels after attending the USQ Mcgregor winter school in June. In the meantime, here are a couple of graphite drawings I managed to complete this year before the playing cards set in,

Brett A. Jones

Revolutionary and evolutionary playing card design by Brett A. Jones.
Actual playing cards manufactured to the highest standards by the United States Playing Card Company in Ohio and published in Sydney, Australia by Whiteknuckle Cards.

Once purchased, your cards will be securely packed and posted to the address provided. Please feel free to e-mail the Sea of Pain studios on brett@seaofpain.com if you have any questions. If you have purchased cards, thank you very much for supporting an independent fine artist,

                                                   Brett A. Jones

	Whiteknuckle New Standard playing cards New Release International prices including postage and handling (US dollars) 1 deck $17.75 2 decks $26.96 3 decks $41.60 4 decks $51.50 6 decks $74.80 9 decks $107.40 12 decks $140.00

	Whiteknuckle New Standard playing cards New Release Australian prices including postage and handling (Aus dollars) 1 deck $13.50 2 decks $24.20 3 decks $34.50 4 decks $42.50 6 decks $63.70 9 decks $90.00 12 decks $115.00 24 decks $210.00

	Whiteknuckle New Standard playing cards New Release New Zealand prices including postage and handling (NZ dollars) 1 deck $22.00 2 decks $35.00 3 decks $51.87 4 decks $64.87 6 decks $94.00 9 decks $137.00 12 decks $156.00

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Brett A. Jones was born in 1966 in Redcliffe, Queensland. His family lived in the western outskirts of Brisbane until 1976. A move to the Gold Coast saw him attend art classes with Mr. Scott-Vandyke for a few years learning drawing and oil painting. During the next few years (while still at school) he painted and sold dozens of oil paintings, mostly in duo-tone and sometimes involving diptychs and triptychs of Australian landscape scenes. His inspiration in those days was Hans Heysen. He left school after grade 10 and completed the first year of a boilermaking apprenticeship in a shipyard on the Brisbane River before switching to a fitting and turning apprenticeship in the Brisbane City Council which he completed with honours in 1986. After working for an oil exploration company in western Queensland, he moved to Cairns and worked at Trinity Wharf, for a goldmine west of Georgetown, for the Far North Queensland Electricity Board, and for a large engine rebuilding company, while still developing his artistic skills at every opportunity.
He moved to Hervey Bay in 1991 and worked for various engineering firms until an accident at work. He broke his left wrist and permanently injured his spine. There followed a few very hard years during which he turned fully back to his artistic roots. The intense personal drive to be an artist sent him searching for a way to achieve in the fine art world, within the limitations imposed on him by chronic severe pain (hurt to move, hurt to breathe).

He experimented with various mediums including wood, steel, aluminium, brass, spray-painting, leather, house enamel & pure tint, coloured pencil, watercolour and oil paint. He hand carved motorcycle parts, did custom paint jobs, hand made throwing knives from old car springs (which are things of great beauty and really just another form of artistic expression), painted a large mural which took two and a half years to finish and was started with a broken wrist, and set up a studio and tried to seriously re-engage with his oil painting past with a view to painting and selling originals. It took four months of pain to paint the first one (Canesmoke Sunset), which almost made him give up art for good.

"I sat like Rodins' Thinker for about three hours one day until finally realizing if I was going to give up producing originals for sale because of pain I might as well just do what I really wanted to and admitted to myself I'd really rather draw in monochrome than paint, pick the subject matter on a purely personal level, and not limit myself with time constraints and others expectations of what fine art is. It dawned on me after awhile (When I started winning art shows) that it didn’t matter how long it took me to prepare for and complete a work if the results were good enough to be published as fine art prints".

He subsequently spent the next few years doing a series of works in graphite, each one taking many hundreds of pain filled hours to complete. Four of these prize winning works are now in print, with more to come.

"I always wanted to fully explore the concept of Chiaroscuro, to make people really believe there was a motorcycle, or bowl of fruit or whatever in front of them, using only the effects of light. For me 2B graphite lends itself to this perfectly as it represents all the grey tones from so close to white, that it is white unless compared to actual white, to black and every tone in between. White is the blank paper, but to the minds eye can be made to look like anything if its surroundings are the right shape and tone. My art teacher Mr. Scott-Vandyke told me when I was ten that if I wanted to draw properly, to draw the shadows and let the highlights take care of themselves. He impressed that on me all the time. I can hear him saying it like it was yesterday, instead of thirty years ago.

The fact that I draw motorcycles on a white background is completely secondary to the fact that I am trying to produce fine art of the very highest order, which can be put up against anything here or overseas. The reason they're pictures of motorcycles is because I had to find a subject I could become so obsessed with, that it would override the ever present back pain (the physical sea of pain). Motorcycles have always held a deep fascination for me. A stationary motorcycle is a beautiful combination of balance, latent speed, power, and danger, and a symbol of so many things, including freedom. At the same time they provide a number of different materials, surfaces, shapes, and textures to allow me to fully explore the parameters I have decided on. I always place them in full sunlight, this being the light which produces the most intense reflections, back lighting, and deep shadows that result in the multiple light effects and three dimensional depth ideal for showcasing my chosen drawing technique (chiaroscuro). It's called Sea of Pain Fine Art Productions not just because of the maddening struggle with the spinal pain. When something takes up to nine months from start to finish with that kind of focus, it hurts your brain a long time before you're finished (the mental sea of pain)."

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1st prize in under 11 section……………………………....Gold Coast Show................……………….....1977
Highly Commended in junior section…………………....Nerang Festival of Arts.............……………..1978
1st prize in the monochrome drawing section………Fraser Coast Show................…………………2004
3rd prize in the drawing section…………………………..Royal Queensland Show...............………….2004
The Neumann Family Award (best in show)….…….Springfest Art & Craft Festival...........………2004
1st prize in the drawing section………………………....Goldrush Art Exhibition..............………………2004
1st prize in the drawing section……………………......Gwydir Art Show...........….……………………...2004
1st prize in the drawing section………………...........Goondiwindi Art Show.....………………………...2005
1st prize in the photography section (novice)…...Fraser Coast Show..........……………………....2005
1st prize in the monochrome drawing section……..Fraser Coast Show...........…...…………………2005
Grand Champion of the fine art exhibit………………..Fraser Coast Show................…………………2005
S.C.O.P.E. Award for Excellence………………..........Sarina Art Show..........…………………………….2005
1st prize in the drawing section…………….............Nanango Art Show.....…………….…………………2005
2nd prize in the drawing section……………............Royal Queensland Show...…………………….....2005
Highly Commended in the drawing section……......Springfest Art & craft Show....……..………...2005
Commended Overall……………………………….............Ryde Art Exhibition...........…….…………………2005
1st prize in the drawing section……………............Goldrush Art Exhibition.....…………….……………2005
Highly Commended in the drawing section…….....Gwydir Art Show...........…………………………...2005
Highly Commended Overall………….....................Rotary Club of Sorrento Annual Art Show....2006
Best Any Other Medium……………………….............Ballan Art Show..........………….…………………...2006
1st prize in the drawing section……………...........Goondiwindi Art Show.....…………..……………...2006
1st prize in the monochrome drawing section…...Fraser Coast Show...........………………………..2006
1st prize in the drawing section……………….........Maryborough Heritage City Art Festival...……2006
1st prize in the drawing section………………….......Gold Coast Show............………..…………………2006
1st prize in monochrome drawing section……..............Fraser Coast Show………….................2007
Grand Champion of the fine art exhibit……..................Fraser Coast Show…………...............…2007
2nd prize in the hand carved section…………...............Fraser Coast Show…………...............…2007
1st prize in the hand carved section…………................Royal Queensland Show……….............2007
1st prize in the sculpture section……………..................Gold Coast Show……………..................2007
1st prize in the drawing section…………......................Ernest Henry Memorial Art Show.........2007
H.C. in the sculpture section……………….....................Springfest Art & Craft Festival…..........2007
1st prize in the drawing section……………....................Springfest Art & Craft Festival….........2007
The Neumann Family Award (Best in Show)................Springfest Art & Craft Festival...........2007
1st prize in the monochrome drawing section...............Fraser Coast Show......................2008
1st prize in the drawing section.........................Maryborough Heritage City Art Festival....2008
1st prize in the drawing section.........................Royal Queensland Show........................2008
-1st prize in the drawing section..........................Gold Coast Show................................2008
-Overall Best Exhibit...........................................Gold Coast Show.................................2008
-3rd prize in the drawing section.....................Ernest Henry Memorial Art Show..................2008
1st prize in the Graphite/Charcoal section...........Mt.Perry Fine Arts Exhibition...........2008
Inaugural Glenn Madden Memorial Trophy for most outstanding work in show.............................
............................................... Yakkerboo Art Festival.................................................2009
1st prize in the monochrome drawing section............Fraser Coast Show.............................2009
1st prize in the drawing-monochrome section...........Sarina Art Extravaganza.......................2009
1st prize in the drawing section…………….........………...Maryborough Art Show…………............….2009
Members award………………………………......................…Maryborough Art Show……............……….2009
2nd in drawing section………………………….............………Gold Coast Show…………...............………..2009
2nd in drawing section……………………….............…………Bowen art Show………...............……………2009
Highly commended in drawing section…….......……..……Gwydir Art Show……................…………….2009

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Making decisions and setting parameters before starting a work is very important to me. Inspiration is one thing but you have to set up the picture before you even start on it by deciding on things. This might sound a bit simple, but some of the most important things in life are.

In this case I wanted to draw something in monochrome which would be the best thing I could possibly do, plus some. This means for one thing, the time it takes from start to finish must be unlimited. You can't plan on doing the best thing you've ever done in your life, but give yourself a deadline of only a week or a month.

Consequently each of these drawings have taken hundreds and hundreds of hours over many months to complete. You have to decide on a scale of detail. I decided to draw absolutely everything, it nearly drives me mad sometimes, but I've noticed the most frustrating bits of a drawing (the bits that make you angry, and sick in the stomach until you get it right, sometimes weekslater) are the ones that make it a masterpiece instead of just a good drawing. For example there's no point in taking six months to draw the engine, but three days to draw the front wheel just because you're sick of doing it and want the whole drawing to be finished. I can draw a motorbike in two minutes that will look ok, but it won't look like the drawings in these prints.

Different decisions were made in the start and stuck to.

It's the same with perspective and proportions. I've only ever drawn freehand, all my life, because I believe that fine art, by definition, must be freehand (no tracing, gridding, measuring, or projecting whatsoever). You have to have beliefs before you can make decisions and you have to make decisions to do something the best you can.

Then there's quality, which far from being an intangible is really just one more parameter you have to set. I decided from the start to really push my own boundaries, the whole time, and not set a ceilingon how well a certain subject had to be drawn to be good enough. When I decided to live in that zone, I realized it is the mental side to the sea of pain.

Sometimes I rub things out twenty times or more, or spend two days detailing a small part of the picture, only to rub the whole section out because things are slightly wrong, even when I know I might be the only one that ever knows or notices.

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The recent 2-day workshop in Kenilworth held over the first weekend of the "Kenilworth Celebrates 2009" art festival, "The Secrets of Freehand Drawing" was fully booked and a great success with some beautiful drawing being done by all and vast progress being made by a couple of the students in particular. Everybody including myself enjoyed the experience very much.

I will be doing a 4-day graphite workshop during the week of the festival in 2010, if you are interested or would like to book a place, please ring Rod Bloomer (Festival co-ordinator) on (07)54 723088 or kac@kenilwortharts.org.au or Brett A. Jones on (07)41 287682 or art@seaofpain.com for further details.


Drawing classes by Brett A. Jones available at the Sea of Pain Fine Art Production Studio in Hervey Bay, QLD. Classes are held every Saturday and Sunday. Morning sessions: 9:00am - 12:00pm, afternoon sessions: 1:00pm - 4:00pm, cost is $25 per 3hr session.

if you wish to enquire, please ring (07) 41 287 682 or email art@seaofpain.com

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Exhibition grade framing is available to customers within Australia. All framing is done to exacting standards by Alan from “Out of the Square Picture Framing”, Main St. Pialba, QLD.

All Sea of Pain Fine Art Productions prints and originals are framed using top quality timber moulding, reflective glass (non-reflective glass obscures fine detail), top quality acid-free matte board surround, acid-free core board backing, metal ‘D’rings, and sash cord.
Your framed print will be securely packed in polystyrene and triple-ply cardboard and will be posted or couriered (depending on size of order and location) to your front door.

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Brett A. Jones’ multi-award winning original freehand work.
Please e-mail brett@seaofpain.com for payment and delivery enquiries

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If you love fine art and motorcycles, these prints are for you. People regularly study them for over an hour in galleries etc and then weeks after purchasing them, say they’re still finding things they hadn’t noticed before (detail goes down to screw head slots, wires, dirt on spokes etc). They are not 2D illustrations, but freehand drawings of what ridden motorcycles actually look like sitting in the sun. These investment quality prints are A2 (597 x 420mm) and feature the multi-award winning pencil art of Brett A. Jones (these four drawings have won awards in over 25 art shows). They are printed on 300gsm dull silk white Parilux paper using the very latest F.M. screening process, which means the image is not made up of a series of dots but randomly placed shapes, so no matter how closely you inspect the print, even through a magnifying glass, no dots will appear. This greatly helps preserve fine detail in dark areas of the print as there are no dots to bleed into each other.

The ink used is U.V. proof and lightfast, and being a 4-colour offset process creates a perfect copy of the tones, depths and details of the originals.

The paper is A1+ quality rated, with international standards for permanence and an archival life of 300+ years. It is regarded as one of the very finest coated papers available, perfectly suited for limited edition fine art prints.

Each numbered print comes with a signed certificate of authenticity, it's own 240gsm varnished storage envelope, and are securely packaged in specially made triple ply cardboard packing, which can be safely posted anywhere in the world.

Edition
Limited Edition - 800
Artists Proof - 50 (E-mail for price and delivery details)
Dimensions - A2 (594mm x 420mm)
Price -
Unframed $79.95 each (inc postage)
Framed $229.95 each (inc postage)

Special Offer for limited time, set of four limited edition prints with certificates and matching numbers for $200 including postage. For payment details or enquiries, please e-mail on art@seaofpain.com, or ring (07) 41 287 682

"Happiness is Italian Pushrods"

   
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	"Happiness is Italian Pushrods", numbered and signed limited edition print (unframed)..............$64.95 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)..............$ 15.00 AUD  Total..............$79.95. AUD
	"Happiness is Italian Pushrods", numbered and signed limited edition print (framed)..................$199.95 AUD Freight and packaging (within Australia)..................$ 30.00 AUD Total..................$229.95 AUD
	"Happiness is Italian Pushrods", numbered and signed limited edition print (unframed)...............$64.95 AUD Postage and packaging (outside Australia)...............$ 30.00 AUD Total...............$94.95 AUD
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"Chief of the Open Road"

   
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	"Chief of the Open Road", numbered and signed limited edition print (unframed)..............$64.95 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)..............$ 15.00 AUD  Total..............$79.95. AUD
	"Chief of the Open Road", numbered and signed limited edition print (framed)..................$199.95 AUD Freight and packaging (within Australia)..................$ 30.00 AUD Total..................$229.95 AUD
	"Chief of the Open Road", numbered and signed limited edition print (unframed)...............$64.95 AUD Postage and packaging (outside Australia)...............$ 30.00 AUD Total...............$94.95 AUD
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"Sunshine on a Cloudy Day"

   
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	"Sunshine on a Cloudy Day", numbered and signed limited edition print (unframed)..............$64.95 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)..............$ 15.00 AUD  Total..............$79.95. AUD
	"Sunshine on a Cloudy Day", numbered and signed limited edition print (framed)..................$199.95 AUD Freight and packaging (within Australia)..................$ 30.00 AUD Total..................$229.95 AUD
	"Sunshine on a Cloudy Day", numbered and signed limited edition print (unframed)...............$64.95 AUD Postage and packaging (outside Australia)...............$ 30.00 AUD Total...............$94.95 AUD
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"Clockwork Orange"

   
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	"Clockwork Orange", numbered and signed limited edition print (unframed)..............$64.95 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)..............$ 15.00 AUD  Total..............$79.95. AUD
	"Clockwork Orange", numbered and signed limited edition print (framed)..................$199.95 AUD Freight and packaging (within Australia)..................$ 30.00 AUD Total..................$229.95 AUD
	"Clockwork Orange", numbered and signed limited edition print (unframed)...............$64.95 AUD Postage and packaging (outside Australia)...............$ 30.00 AUD Total...............$94.95 AUD
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These open edition prints of Brett A. Jones’ artwork have been professionally printed on high quality paper and come hand signed by the artist. They can be purchased professionally framed, or unframed. Prints are securely packaged in specially made triple ply cardboard packing.
Unframed prints can be sent anywhere in the world.
Framed prints can be sent anywhere in Australia

Unframed open edition prints come matted and backed with acid-free materials and are wrapped in heat-shrink plastic for protection. They are ready for framing. Unframed prints come securely packaged in cardboard and are posted to your door.

The purchase price includes postage and packing.

	“Andrew on his Sunbeam”, hand signed open edition print-14”x 11” (365mm x 280mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed ready for framing or display......$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)………………...$ 12 AUD TOTAL………...$ 62 AUD
	“Andrew on his Sunbeam”, hand signed open edition print-18”x 15”(453mm x 380mm) (Framed)………………………………………………………………...$100 AUD Freight and packaging (within Australia)…………………. $ 20 AUD TOTAL………… $120 AUD
	“Andrew on his Sunbeam”, hand signed open edition print- 14”x 11”(365mm x 280mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed ready for framing or display…$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (outside Australia)…………………$ 25 AUD TOTAL………….$ 75 AUD
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	“E-type Jag”, hand signed open edition print- 15”x 10”(381mm x 254mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed ready for framing or display…. $ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)…………………. $ 12 AUD TOTAL…………...$ 62 AUD
	“E-type Jag”, hand signed open edition print- 19”x 13” (483mm x 323mm) (Framed) …………………………………………………………….$100 AUD Freight and packaging (within Australia)…………………. $ 20 AUD TOTAL………….$120 AUD
	“E-type Jag”, hand signed open edition print- 15”x 10”(381mm x 254mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display…$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (outside Australia)…………………...$ 25 AUD TOTAL……………$ 75 AUD
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	“DKW Racebike”, hand signed open edition print- 14”x 11”(365mm x 280mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display…$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)……………………$ 12 AUD TOTAL…………… $ 62 AUD
	“DKW Racebike”, hand signed open edition print- 18”x 15”(453mm x 380mm) (Framed)……………………………………………………………. $ 100 AUD Freight and packaging (within Australia)……………………. $ 20 AUD TOTAL……………$ 120 AUD
	“DKW Racebike”, hand signed open edition print- 14”x 11”(365mm x 280mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display…$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (outside Australia)…………………….$ 25 AUD TOTAL…………….$ 75 AUD
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	“Cranked Over”, hand signed open edition print- 15”x 10” (381mm x 254mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display…$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)……………………...$ 12 AUD TOTAL………………$ 62 AUD
	“Cranked Over”, hand signed open edition print- 19”x 13” (483mm x 323mm) (Framed)…………………………………………………………….$100 AUD Freight and packaging (within Australia)………………………$ 20 AUD TOTAL………………$120 AUD
	“Cranked Over”, hand signed open edition print- 15”x 10” (381mm x 254mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display...$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (outside Australia)…………………….$ 25 AUD TOTAL……………..$ 75 AUD
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	“Feathering the Throttle”, hand signed open edition print- 15”x 10” ( 381mm x 254mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display…$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)……………………$ 12 AUD TOTAL………………...$ 62 AUD
	“Feathering the Throttle”, hand signed open edition print- 19”x 13” (483mm x 323mm) (Framed)……………………………………………………………$100 AUD Freight and packaging (within Australia)…………………….$ 20 AUD TOTAL……………….$120 AUD
	“Feathering the Throttle”, hand signed open edition print- 15”x 10” (381mm x 254mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display…$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (outside Australia)…………………….$ 25 AUD TOTAL…………………$ 75 AUD
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	“Café Racer”, hand signed open edition print- 14”x 11”(365mm x 280mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display….$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)…………………………$ 25 AUD TOTAL………………$ 75 AUD
	“Café Racer”, hand signed open edition print- 18”x 15”(453mm x 380mm) (Framed)……………………………………………………………..$100 AUD Freight and packaging (within Australia)………………………$ 20 AUD TOTAL………………$120 AUD
	“Café Racer”, hand signed open edition print- 14”x 11” (365mm x 280mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display…$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (outside Australia)……………………...$ 25 AUD TOTAL……………….$ 75 AUD
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	“Shattering the Still”, hand signed open edition print-14”x 11”(365mm x 280mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display….$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)……………………$ 12 AUD TOTAL……………….$ 62 AUD
	“Shattering the Still”, hand signed open edition print- 18”x 15”(453mm x 380mm) (Framed)……………………………………………………………. $100 AUD Freight and packaging (within Australia)…………………...$ 20 AUD TOTAL………………$120 AUD
	“Shattering the Still”, hand signed open edition print- 14”x 11”(365mm x 280mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display…$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (outside Australia)…………………...$ 25 AUD TOTAL………………$ 75 AUD
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	“Canesmoke Sunset”, hand signed open edition print- 15”x 10” (381mm x 254mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display….$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)……………………….$ 12 AUD TOTAL…………………..$ 62 AUD
	“Canesmoke Sunset”, hand signed open edition print- 19”x 13” (483mm x 323mm) (Framed)………………………………………………………….. $100 AUD Freight and packaging (within Australia)………………………$ 20 AUD TOTAL………………….$120 AUD
	“Canesmoke Sunset”, hand signed open edition print- 15”x 10”(381mm x 254mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display…$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (outside Australia)……………………… $ 25 AUD TOTAL……………………$ 75 AUD
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	“Light in the Forest”, hand signed open edition print- 15”x 10”(381mm x 254mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display….$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)……………………….$ 12 AUD TOTAL…………………...$ 62 AUD
	“Light in the Forest”, hand signed open edition print- 19”x 13”(483mm x 323mm) (Framed)……………………………………………………………$ 100 AUD Freight and packaging (within Australia)……………………..$ 20 AUD TOTAL………………….$ 120 AUD
	“Light in the Forest”, hand signed open edition print- 15”x 10”(381mm x 254mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display…$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (outside Australia)………………………$ 25 AUD TOTAL…………………..$ 75 AUD
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	“Psychedelic Sunrise”, hand signed open edition print- 14”x 11” (365mm x 280mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display….$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)…………………………..$ 12 AUD TOTAL……………………$ 62 AUD
	“Psychedelic Sunrise”, hand signed open edition print- 18”x 15” (453mm x 380mm) (Framed)…………………………………………………………….$100 AUD Freight and packaging (within Australia)………………………..$ 20 AUD TOTAL……………………$120 AUD
	“Psychedelic Sunrise”, hand signed open edition print- 14”x 11”(365mm x 280mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display… $ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)……………………….$ 25 AUD TOTAL…………………...$ 75 AUD
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	“Psychedelic Sunset”, hand signed open edition print- 14”x 11” (365mm x 280mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display…$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)……………………….$ 12 AUD TOTAL………………….$ 62 AUD
	“Psychedelic Sunset”, hand signed open edition print- 14”x 11” (453mm x 380mm) (Framed) ……………………………………………………$ 100 AUD Freight and packaging………………………………….$ 20 AUD TOTAL………………...$ 120 AUD
	“Psychedelic Sunset”, hand signed open edition print- 14”x 11” (365mm x 280mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display…$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (outside Australia)………………………$ 25 AUD TOTAL………………..$ 75 AUD
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	“After the Storm”, hand signed open edition print- 15”x 10” (381mm x 254mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display….$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)………………………..$ 12 AUD TOTAL………………...$ 62 AUD
	“After the Storm”, hand signed open edition print- 19”x 13” (483mm x 323mm) (Framed)………………………………………………………$100 AUD Freight and packaging (outside Australia)…………………$ 20 AUD TOTAL………………..$120 AUD
	“After the Storm”, hand signed open edition print- 15”x 10” (381mm x 254mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed, ready for framing or display….$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)………………………..$ 25 AUD TOTAL…………………$ 75 AUD
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	“Cosmic Guitar-both sides-colour”, hand signed open edition print - 15”x 10”(381mm x 254mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed ready for framing or display….$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (within Australia)………………………$ 12 AUD TOTAL………………..$ 62 AUD
	“Cosmic Guitar-both sides-colour”, hand signed open edition print - 19”x 13”(483mm x 323mm) (Framed) ……………………………………………………….$100 AUD Freight and packaging (within Australia)………………… $ 20 AUD TOTAL………………$120 AUD
	“Cosmic Guitar-both sides-colour”, hand signed open edition print - 15”x 10”(381mm x 254mm) (Unframed) comes matted and backed ready for framing or display….$ 50 AUD Postage and packaging (outside Australia)……………………...$ 25 AUD TOTAL………………..$ 75 AUD
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This is a selection of Brett A. Jones’ earlier work (dating back to 1974)
Click on thumbnails to open

Drawing

Digital

Mural

Painting

Sketching

Woodcarving

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Bike Art exhibition- Kenilworth- Sept’05

Story Bridge Concourse display- Brisbane- Aug’06

1st Solo exhibition- Old Warehouse Gallery- Feb’07

Foyer display-Hervey Bay Regional Gallery-Mar’07

Feature artist at the Gwydir art show- Oct’07

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To read magazine articles, click on the links below.

Artists Palette- July 2007- issue No.50
- “Not Drowning”

Artists Palette- July 2007- issue No.50
- “Clockwork Orange”

Australian Motor Cycle News- July 2007- Vol.57, No.2
- “Lead in his Pencil”

Artists Palette- Oct 2007- issue No.54
- “Basic Drawing Techniques”

Two Wheels - March 2008
- "Sea of Pain"

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I include my bike in this website, as it has soaked up a massive amount of my artistic compulsions over the years and any overview of my art would be incomplete without it.
It's the only big bore road bike I've ever had. I bought it in Cairns in the late eighties for a good price and have had it crawl in under my skin and stay there ever since. I've crashed and repaired it a few times, painted it several times, made the seat out of an old kangaroo skin mat I had, hand made a lot of its parts from nothing, or from bits of other bikes, completely rebuilt the engine (including changing the external shape of it by hand), carved things in it, chopped things off it, lowered it, souped it up, and generally made it into a physical manifestation of my artistic insanity.
Apart from a bit of help with the wiring and shimming the internals (thanks Mark) I did it all by myself, by hand, with little or no money, and for the last ten years anyway, in a lot of pain. Winning a few trophies at bike shows was one of the motivations for entering the art show scene with my drawings.

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This is the first guitar I ever bought (when I was 17) and is the one I learned to play on. The original sunburst finish was in perfect condition then and it was a beautiful instrument to play, but I’d seen worn out old stratocasters and telecasters that had been played for endless thousands of hours over many years and must have soaked up so much energy that they took on their own unique personality (Eric Claptons “Blackie” is a perfect example). I started thinking about really going to town on my guitar and take well used and well loved to an all-time extreme, and load so much of my energy into it over a long period (not just playing and carving it, but setting it up technically) that it would represent a credible fusion between music and art, and exist as a magnificent object in the universe in it’s own right.

I bought a $10 set of carving knives in Cairns when I was 20 and then spent thousands and thousands of hours over the next 20 years carving it, through many different stages of my life, in good times and dark times. It was my first substantial foray into subconscious art (don’t design it first, just start and let something other than your waking conscious guide your knife). I’m very happy with how it turned out.

For a hand signed print of “Cosmic Guitar”, go to the open edition print section.

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When I punched a rib through my spine and broke my left wrist in 1996 I went from many years of working 50-60 hours a week to my new life of excruciating pain.
Some friends offered a newly painted room in their house and all the paint etc I needed to paint a mural. I told them I would do it for nothing if I had complete control over the time it took and the subject matter. They must have learnt to regret it as the resulting mural took over two and a half years and was one of the most pain soaked, nightmarish, and mentally demanding tasks I hadever taken on. It was also exactly what I needed at that time and they knew it. I got them to buy me 10 litres of white house paint, 5 litres of black, and half a coffee cup each of pure tint in red, blue, yellow, green, and ochre, and started the thing in a very stressed place mentally and physically with no pre-conceived idea at all of what or how I was going to paint (I’d never painted a mural before, or painted with house paint and pure tint).

I started with the sun and the mountains and lakes and then worked up into the sky. The rest just unfolded from there without planning ahead at all (same way I carved the cosmic guitar). It was very hard to use a paintbrush with a broken left wrist, so I ended up using my right hand, throwing it, flicking it off a toothbrush, pushing it around with my hands and fingers, and generally using any means I could to get paint on the walls. I used to work on it half the night and wake up on the floor in front of it next morning and start painting again.

The constant hurting when breathing or moving in any way nearly defeated me over and over again until my mind warped and I went to a place where I just didn’t care, which proved to be good training for the motorcycle drawings a few years later (see limited edition prints).

I never forget the massive learning trip painting this work was, it was my first swim across the sea of pain. (Some of the open edition prints are details of this work)

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"Bretts drawings depict the careful and painstaking representation of his subject to the point of absolute precision. Art viewers realize only when they closely examine his pictures that they are not photos, but unique drawings in pencil by this extremely talented artist".

Robin R. Hansen (art show convenor)

"Bretts artistry is exemplified by his attention to detail. All art lovers, but especially bike aficionados will embrace and appreciate the accuracy and effort put into the works presented."

Birgit Kehr (gallery owner)

"The skills of the illustration (draftsmanship), are frequently dismissed in contemporary art, yet still praised in the works from earlier periods. I can think of Ingres, David, Durer, Whistler, Wyeth…..to name a few. We felt this work displayed all the attributes of the skilful draftsman; Accuracy, tone, texture, and a high level of virtuosity.

(Judges comments from art show)

"Brett A. Jones appears to have two great passions in life. His first, sophisticated motorcycles, the second, his love of depicting them in graphite pencil. In the first, he is an expert, in the second a perfectionist.
Brett has mastered his subject and chosen medium, which is clearly evident in the finished result. His completed works could be described as portraits of beautiful, finely tuned machines dramatically posed to show their form and promise of power to all who understand. But Bretts work goes well beyond an accurate portrayal of his subject; these are genuine works of art in their own right. Like a good portrait, each subject has been given a unique personality making the series a perfect collection.
His technique is painstaking. Brett endeavours to push the monochromatic medium of graphite to its limit, generally working with a single grade of pencil (2B) on an ultra smooth, hot pressed paper. Brett employs many of the classic principals known as 'Chiaroscuro Modelling', a technique developed during the Italian renaissance in which the artist gives a subject more realistic form and substance by the controlled use of light and shade rather than line. The original illustrations are created on hand made watercolour paper credited with the highest archival rating available; this new series of prints will no doubt reflect his commitment to reproduction quality and standards of permanence.

Phillip Taylor (professional pencil artist, trained at the Slade School)

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