Jevan Watkins Jones' work is characterised by a sensitive attention to different states of nature and playful interactions with the biophysical environment.
Selected Exhibitions and Projects
2026 Refired (group), Messums East, Lowestoft
2026 One Work Gallery (solo), The Nose, Walton-on-the-Naze
2026 Hām (group), 635 London Road South, Lowestoft
2026 In Proximity (group), Castle Museum, Norwich
2025 NESSness (solo), The Watch House, Orford Quay
2025 Yellowhammer (group), Art:Oasis, Frinton-on-Sea
2025 Noon to Moon (group), curated by Alexander Costello, First Light Festival, Lowestoft
2025 LAND TOO (group), The Art Station at the Old Theatre, Framlingham
2025 LAND (group), The Art Station, The Old Bank, Saxmundham
2025 Into the Woods (group), Art Exchange, University of Essex
2025 Frinton Stations (group), curated by Simon Carter, Art:Oasis, Frinton-on-Sea
2025 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (group), The Art Station, London Art Fair
2025 Confluence II (solo), with Simon Carter, Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
2024 Heyou (solo), with Stefan Musgrove, Bultey Mills Studio, Butley
2024 Hello Little Mud (solo), The Watch House, Orford Quay
2024 For Folk Sake (group), curated by Rebecca Riess & Alexander Costello, The Cut, Halesworth
2024 Scrubland (group), Butley Mills Studio, Butley
2024 Fairly Interesting Textures (group), Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester
2023 Animal Vegetable Mineral (group), curated by Annabel Dover and Karen Densham, The Art Station, Saxmundham
2023 Transient (group), Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester
2023 Plant Life (group), Art:Oasis, Frinton-on-Sea
2023 Confluence (solo), with Simon Carter, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester
2023 Groundness (solo), The Watch House, Orford Quay
2023 Nature: Tamed and Unbound (group), Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester
2023 The Garden (group), North House Gallery, Manningtree
2023 To a Green Thought in a Green Shade (group), The Artspace, Woodbridge
2023 Pet Shop (group), Art:Oasis, Frinton-on-Sea
2022 studioUS (group), Primeyarc, Original Projects, Great Yarmouth
2022 Material Restlessness (solo), with Simon Carter, Naze Tower, Essex
2021 Growing Drawings (group), Chatto Art Group, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester
2021 Shore Lines (solo), with Simon Carter, Firstsite, Colchester
2021 Point-to-Point (solo), with Simon Carter, Hamilton MAS, Felixstowe
2020 Take a Lesson from the Ground (group), with Paul Patrick Fenner & Douglas Farthing, Mandells Gallery, Norwich
2020 Wet & Dry (solo), Art:Oasis, Frinton-on-Sea
2018 Open Call (group), Atlas House, Ipswich
2018 DRAW (group), Mandells Gallery, Norwich
2018 Anna Airy Prize Winners Exhibition (group), Ipswich Art Gallery
2016 Sideways (solo), Darsham Nurseries
2015-16 Alternative Yellow Book (project), with High Stile Projects, Arts Council, Great Dunmow
2015 Making Space (group), curated by Kaavous Clayton, The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester
2015 Roam (solo), Darsham Nurseries
2014 Occupied with Plants (solo), Art Exchange, University of Essex
2014 Facing-Recovering (project), with injured soldiers, Firstsite, Colchester; Royal Armouries, Portchester; House of Commons, London
2013 Leading the Line (project), with Lawrence Bradby & Colchester United FC, Firstsite, Colchester
2011-13 Turf Twinning (project), with Lawrence Bradby & residents of Greenstead Estate, Firstsite, Colchester
2011 Periphery (solo), with Christopher Langley, Peppermint Shed, Ipswich
2006 Bladderwrack (solo), Aldeburgh Festival
2006 Swan Vigil (solo), The Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich
2002 On the Border (solo), Firstsite at The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester; The Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich
2002 The Art of Waiting (solo), Ipswich Station Waiting Room, Ipswich
2001 Notes from the Underground (group), Dostoevsky Museum, St Petersburg
2000 Tout a Fait (group), Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
1995 Young Blood (group), The Forefront Gallery, University of Suffolk
1994 Drawings for All (group), Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury
1994 The Body (group), Artworks, Felixstowe
Residencies
2023 -present Resident Artist and Gardener, The Art Station, Saxmundham
2026 Research Art Lab, Power House, Orford Ness National Trust Nature Reserve
2019-21 Atlas House, Ipswich
2017 Dumfries House, with Debbie Watkins Jones, Ayrshire, Scotland
2015 Dumfries House, with Debbie Watkins Jones, Ayrshire, Scotland
2015 Art Exchange, University of Essex with Biological Sciences
2015 The Lookout, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
2009-15 Associate Artist, Firstsite, Colchester
2009-11 Northgate High School, Art & Science Department, Ipswich
2008 Between Moon and Trees, Firstsite at The Minories, Colchester
Publications
2025 Being Margin: Orford Ness-ness, written by Matthew Bowman
2025 The Voice from the Well, written by Jevan Watkins Jones
2024 Little Mud, written by Lawrence Bradby
2021 Collaboration and the Collaging of Experiences, written by Matthew Bowman
2020 Thing-power through the skin: a response to Gaining Ground, written by Lawrence Bradby
2017 Ground Things, Tate, written by Jevan Watkins Jones
2017 Artists on the Gallery Payroll: A Case Study and a Corporate Turn, page 125, essay written by Lawrence Bradby and Judith Stewart
2016 Alternative Yellow Book, written by Jevan Watkins Jones, designed by Stefan Musgrove
2014 The World's Long Thoughts, written by Lawrence Bradby
2014 Facing-Recovering, written by Jevan Watkins Jones, afterword written by Peter Jenkinson OBE
2013 Turf Twinning, by Lawrence Bradby and Jevan Watkins Jones
2013 Six Cuts, written by Jonathan P. Watts
2013 Living Subjects in the Gallery, written by Cinzia Cremona
2012 Reflection: The Art of Jevan Watkins Jones, written by Robert Priseman
2012 Drawing Alive: Films with Drawing, curated by Jevan Watkins Jones
2006 Song, written by Katherine Wood
Films
2026 Groundswell, written and performed by Jevan Watkins Jones, produced by Tom John Rose
2021 Stour Surrounding, film by The Offshoot Foundation, produced by Paul Press and Jevan Watkins Jones
2020 Point-to-Point, with Simon Carter and Jevan Watkins Jones, film by Noah Carter
2012 Leading the Line, with Lawrence Bradby and Jevan Watkins Jones, film by Steven Dorrington
Conferences
2026 Constable 250: Ground - Horizon - Sky, performative presentation, Groundswell, University of Suffolk
2014 Accounting for Drawing (with) Soldiers: Exploring the Liminal Zone Between Artistic Practice, Evaluation And Ethnography, with Dr Ruth Melville, 15th Annual Ethnography Symposium, University of Suffolk
Scholarships & Prizes
2010 First Prize for Drawing, Dover Street Arts Club, London
2005 The Juliet Gompert Travel Scholarship, Italy
1991 Anna Airy Award, Ipswich Art Society
Education
2015-17 RHS Level 2 Diploma in Principles & Practices of Horticulture
2009-10 PG Dip, Royal Drawing School, (Drawing Year)
2005 PG Dip, Artists in Schools, Cambridge Polytechnic
1991-92 BA Hons Design Studies (First Class), University of East London
Teaching
2023-present Guest Lecturer, Drawing, BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Suffolk
2022-present Founder and Teacher of Beth Chatto Art Group, Colchester
2016-19 Associate Tutor, Field Studies Council, Flatford Mill
2011-13 Guest Lecturer, MA Contemporary Art & Practice, Colchester Institute
Trustee
The Minories, Colchester