Julia Griffiths Jones' life and artistic process has been entwined across many countires. Her cultural traditions are rooted in small communities.
In 1977, whilst a Textile student at The Royal College of Art, Griffiths Jones saw an article in Abitare Magazine about a woman in Czechoslovakia who embroidered textiles and painted the exterior of houses in her village with birds and flowers. Griffiths Jones decided to try and get to his village - Stasnice - and meet the artist which she eventually managed to do.
This adventure changed her life, her visual language became embedded in a culture which still inspires and moves her today.
Unable to travel during the past two years, Griffiths Jones has been reworking drawings and influences using coloured vitreous enamel. Much of her current work is dominated by the cut out, a coloured paper technique she encountered in Poland.
The coloured enamel shapes are water-jet cut and screen printed with motifs from Hungarian embroidery known as written stitch.
