Derec Jones – Writer and Artist

Category: Welsh

  • Creative Cardiff Interview

    Creative Cardiff Interview

    Here’s a link to an interview I had with Creative Cardiff about the new music video I’m making for Nick Thomas Lynch. Two amazing privileges coming together. Thanks Carys and thanks Nick 🙂 Creative Cardiff Interview ps – more about the music and the video soon

  • Croeso – Welcome

    Croeso – Welcome

    NOTE: THIS SITE IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING REDESIGNED SO MAY BE A BIT WONKY What’s it all about then? No one’s got a clue really, but we try to do our best. This website exists to display a bit of one person’s attempts to do their best. When I say ‘best’ I’m not […]

  • Three new paintings

    Three new paintings

    Recent work Related Posts:a few recent paintings

  • Dolur – Sorrow, done

    Dolur – Sorrow, done

    Two paintings, identical sized canvas, almost identical images.   Related Posts:SorrowPodcast, September 10th 2022 – Sorrow

  • Sam – New Painting

    Sam – New Painting

    Related Posts:Mosaic #81022 New Painting

  • Podcast, September 10th 2022 – Sorrow

    Podcast, September 10th 2022 – Sorrow

    Click to play Related Posts:SorrowDolur – Sorrow, done

  • An early walk to the weir

    An early walk to the weir

    An early walk to the weir young gulls, learning loving, cold, water rushing, falling casual crows, black, white-necked, doves pecking, grass ducks, basking, blissfully, bathing, warm, bright, gold, late summer, sun river, tumbling endless, rushing, song Annie’s bench sitting, silently, thinking days, ahead, days, long gone. Again swans, duck, dive tails, aloft beaks, beneath, sparkling […]

  • Table 9

    Table 9

    19:15-Chapter TABLE 9 It’s kinda tucked away at the side of the Café-Bar near the entrance to the Art Gallery Table 9 A place to look to assess to judge and comment There’s a woman with her daughter slurping on soup and munching on salad and drinking diet cola A family with two parental figures […]

  • a few recent paintings

    a few recent paintings

    here’s a few recent paintings. there’s about 50 altogether, mostly 12″ x 10″ – 30cm x 25cm – acrylic on canvas, some larger acrylic on paper. Most painted on the coffee table in the evenings over the last few months. some may be for sale, contact me if interested Related Posts:Three new paintings

  • This is Petal

    This is Petal

    Anyway, here’s Petal.

  • Art Exhibition

    Art Exhibition

    Click on an image to begin Related Posts:Exhibition

  • Celandine

    Celandine

  • Crocuses finished on wall

    Crocuses finished on wall

    Framed and ready to roll. This painting will be on display and for sale at The Wholefood Shop in a few days. Not sure about the price yet but I like it a lot so . . . . Related Posts:Crocuses

  • Crocuses

    Crocuses

    Oils on canvas 2017 needs finishing and framing – planning to do it over the Easter weekend It will be on display in The Wholefood Shop after that. Related Posts:Crocuses finished on wall

  • Skin and Bones – New Novel available now

    Skin and Bones – New Novel available now

    Skin is a taxi driver, Bones is a Detective Inspector. They hate each other but both operate on the same patch, the large ex-industrial town of Elchurch on the South Coast of Wales. A young woman is found dead and they are both drawn into the investigation. But all is not what it seems as […]

  • Skin and Bones – new novel coming soon

    My new novel Skin and Bones will be published soon. It is in the final stages of proofreading. Skin is a taxi driver and his brother Bones is a police detective. They do not get on but since they both operate in the large post-industrial town of Elchurch on the South Wales coast they often […]

  • Coming Out of Lockdown

    Coming Out of Lockdown

    Oil on canvas 15/6/2020 – 60cm x 50cm / 24″ x 20″ Painted between April and June 2020 during the Covid lockdown. On display in The Wholefood Shop Cardiff  and for sale at the right price. The painting was started as a pure abstract, in the sense that there was a blank canvas, a random […]

  • More Reflections in a Bin

    Here’s a short video clip set on/in a bin Taken the same time as the photo in a previous post, i.e. March 16th, at the beginning of lockdown

  • The Flying Boy

    I recently completed writing a new novel. The title of the book is ‘Skin and Bones’ . More news on that soon, but in the meantime here is an update on a major work-in-progress. It’s a book with the working title of ‘The Flying Boy’. The title refers to a recurring dream I used to […]

  • Corona Response Team (Painting)

    Started this at the beginning of lockdown – been fiddling with it since – finally finished it yesterday (April 24 2020) Painted on a charity shop frame and mount Related Posts:Sam – New PaintingMosaic #81022 New Painting