Nancy Jones Works
Nancy Jones
Artist Resume
Studio Flyaway
I am a life long artist with a deep love of nature which is reflected in my stone and metal work as well as my mixed media and found art pieces. My work is mainly 3D, I love to build things. My current studio is located in the Florida Panhandle in the small community of Indian Pass.
I have a BA from the University of the South and pursued further study in figurative work at the University of Kentucky. My art career has led to gallery representation and commissions in Atlanta, my previous home for many years and was balanced with over 30 years of teaching art. While teaching I started a Nature Preserve in Atlanta which grew over 16 years and became a full time job. I retired from teaching to be the full time executive director at Blue Heron Nature Preserve and retired two years ago to Florida.
My love of nature involves me in trying to protect it. Some of my volunteer work reflects my environmental and activist spirit such as:
- Board member for St. Vincent’s Island Refuge
- Gulf County representative for the Wildflower Foundation
- Researcher for Microplastics and Nurdles at ANERR, the estuarine center in Eastpoint, Florida
- Gardener at the Monarch Butterfly Waystation in Apalachicola at Holy Family Senior Center and also Water’s Edge RV Park and Indian Summer in Indian Pass
In 2019, I started working on a series of Hurricane Houses built from debris from Hurricane Michael, called “Living on the Edge of Climate Change”. Each house reflects a different season and our ever changing world in the face of global warming and sea rise. Plus, a series of mixed media pieces about historic women in Florida and large black light paintings about the long leaf pine ecological system.
You can see my work now at: The Gadsden Museum of Art in Quincy, Florida, River’s Edge Gallery and Bee Inspired in Apalachicola, Florida.