Nancy Wynne-Jones was born in Dolgellau, Wales in 1922. She studied music at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1940, and then studied art at Heatherly’s Art School and Chelsea Art School in London and St. Peter’s Loft in St. Ives, Cornwall. From the beginning of her career Wynne-Jones’ work was inspired by the colour, texture and wildness of the landscape in North Wales and at St. Ives. In 1966 she married the Irish sculptor Conor Fallon and in 1972 the couple moved to Ireland. Nancy Wynne-Jones often painted in series, returning again and again to subjects that caught her attention – her garden pond at Ballard, the bogs surrounding Nephin in Co. Mayo – each time invigorating them with new life through her easy brushstrokes that hover somewhere between representation and abstraction. Coupled with her many drawings and sketches, her paintings reveal an artist constantly and diligently attempting to capture the lively beauty of nature in paint.
Nancy Wynne-Jones received a Fellowship from the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Sligo and was elected an Honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1994. In 1996 she became a member of Aosdána. In her early career she exhibited in England and Wales and then, following her move to Ireland, showed her work frequently in Dublin with exhibitions at Project Arts Centre, the Emmet Gallery, Lincoln Gallery and Hendriks Gallery. In 1992 University College Cork held a career retrospective of her work which went on to tour Ireland. Her work is represented in many private collections as well as the public collections of Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, the Arts Council of Ireland, AIB, Bank of Ireland and University College Cork.
Nancy Wynne-Jones died at home in Co. Wicklow in 2006.
Exhibitions with Taylor Galleries:2004 Tirawley to Tír na nÓg
2002 I Sing Thy Praise, Mayo
2000 Here and Africa
1997 The Poetry of Place
1995