Peter Jones is best known for his tenderly observed still-life paintings of vintage soft-toys which he collects for this purpose. Keeping company with this ever expanding menagerie are various other found objects - sea-shells in particular - which have been drawn in by the gravity of the studio. However, it is upon the toy animals, those lost or abandoned surrogates of childhood trust and solace that his gaze lingers. Chosen primarily for their potential to be painted, the toys are self-evidently about love, longing, faith and faithfulness, vulnerability, helplessness, and disillusionment.

Born in Birmingham in 1968, Peter Jones studied Fine Art at Reading University from 1988-92, and now lives in London where for the last twenty years he has worked from his studio in Hackney Wick.

Peter has an exhibition history dating back to 1996 when he was selected for The Whitechapel Open. Other London group exhibition venues include The Drawing Room, David Risley Gallery, Pump House Gallery, The Royal Academy, Guildhall Art Gallery, Mall Galleries, Newington Gallery, and Collyer Bristow Gallery.