Wayson Jones for Home & Design
By Tina Coplan | Winter 2025 Issue
HEMPHILL is pleased to share Charismatic Color by Tina Coplan, featuring Wayson R. Jones in the studio in Home & Design's Winter 2025 Issue.
At the tender age of two, Wayson Jones recalls traveling by ship from Baltimore to Germany, where his dad was stationed at the Bad Kreuznach Army base. The artist remembers going on deck during the journey, cradled in his mother’s arms. “It was overcast almost all the time. There was nothing but light gray sky and dark gray ocean with this absolutely perfect horizon line. We didn’t say any thing. We just looked. It was my first aesthetic experience...”
The chromatic power of Jones’ art results in some cases from exploiting complementary colors, such as orange and blue, which are found on opposite poles of the color wheel. When placed side by side, each gains vibrancy from the other. His purpose: “I want to make beautiful objects within the whole realm that beauty is to me.”
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