TIFTON — With help from Plough Gallery, Macon artist Kathleen Jones said she hopes her work will remind viewers to take a quiet moment for themselves.
The gallery’s new exhibition, “Be Still,” showcases six of the artist’s still life paintings exploring her thoughts and experiences during the last year but with an extra caveat to their creation.
While Jones typically employs a good deal of energy during her creative process through loud music and frenetic passion, she took a personal challenge to craft each painting in complete and utter silence.
“I kind of approached it as like a meditation, instead of my usual loud music and chaos,” Jones said. “I used this work to kind of help me ground myself after a year that was kind of busy and chaotic.”
Jones is a professional mixed-media painter operating out of Macon, though she owes much of her experience and knowledge of her trade to her roots in Tifton.
While her paintings of patterns, objects and abstractions are meant to evoke her thoughts, feelings and memories, she said she hopes people who come to see her exhibition – and by extension all of her art – will be able to at least find some enjoyment in the work.
“I hope the energy of the work makes them feel happy, excited – familiar, but new at the same time,” Jones said. “If they see objects or anything they connect to on a deeper level, that’s great too, but I just want them to feel good.”
“Be Still” will be on display at the Plough Gallery until Feb. 25. For more information, contact the gallery at (229) 396-4200.