Selected Articles/ excerpts. (For further articles or full articles please contact the relative press or the artist.)

February 2000 East Magazine “Action Artist” by Aun Koh.
“Through her portraits Hong Kong –based artist opens windows into the lives of ordinary people….Jones specializes in portraiture, painting people the way that Bruce Chatwin once wrote about them., an ardent adventurer – the kind of girl that took Dead Poets Society’s John Keating’s advice to heart and has been ‘sucking the marrow’ out of life’ for as long as she can remember. A consummate traveller, hers is a life lived on the road…it is something sacrosanct, something she describes in short verbal brushstrokes, the sum making a very coherent whole….The paintings made from this journey (and from previous ones) are rich, textured, colourful works, infused with the spirit of both the artist and the traveller. Through colour and composition, broad brush strokes and an eye for detail, Jones immortalizes people’s lives and their history on canvas…”

HK Tatler February 1997 featured Caroline’s work on the cover of the magazine as well as part of an article on “The Rites of Cantonese Opera”

January 1997 Sunday Hong Kong Standard. “Close Brush with Opera Troupes” by Angela Dewar.
The Artist overcomes ‘omens’ to finally win the trust of performers….. The actors couldn’t understand why she would possibly want to paint them (backstage), and apart from that she was seen as a bringer of bad omens – a woman and a gweilo. But tucked away as inconspicuous as possible Jones would sit sketching…. ‘ I was so persistent, not only sketching the actors, but the stagehands and the costumes hanging in the eaves of the bamboo theatre. Eventually after they saw the works unfold and their likenesses appear on the paper I was then told to paint the main protagonists too – quite an honour I suppose!’…. ‘Sometimes I would get in the way and there is a lot of superstition about where you can and cannot go backstage if you are a woman’ and besides, because I painted well into the night I would often catch candid moments like the stage hands napping on their masters trunks!….. Jones takes this exhibition to Singapore later this year and then onto Taiwan… This is a commendable task for any artist, but for a twenty five year old westerner whose career is only just starting it shows the drive and ambition, which might just help her succeed…

July/August 1996 Asian Art News by Ian Findlay. “Caroline Jones at LKF Gallery.”
“Interpreting a culture that is not one’s own is a difficult task facing any artist who attempts it. This is particularly true when the artist takes on a unique aspect of the culture – dance, opera, and landscape, for example… Caroline Jones has made a series of works that, while they are indeed decorative, are dramatic, well – observed studies of an extremely difficult subject, seen in her recent show entitled Beauty Defies Tyranny: the Face of Peking Opera…. Portraying the artifice of its characters, the drama and nuance of its movement and costuming requires a decisive mind since the opera suggests myriad ways of interpreting it visually, from pure abstraction to photo realism. Jones has chosen a realistic approach to her figures, portraying them in a wide variety of poses taken from well known operas….Jones’s paintings and pastels thoroughly engage the viewers attention…Jones takes her subjects head on with the bold figurative technique of her oils..they are vital and exceedingly adroit in achieving the astonishing range of elaborate movements of body and costume….there are times when she reaches beyond the character, behind the makeup and brilliantly coloured attire to reveal something to us about the connection between actor and character….

August 1995 Eastern Express “Artist Gorges on Tiger” by Vernon Ram
“Caroline Jones’ all-seeing eye has captured the colourful landscapes of rural China…this is [her] latest and hottest portfolio….The scenes that most impressed Jones was the majestic Tiger Leaping Gorge in Lijiang…Describing the trek, Jones said “It was invigorating, but the path was narrow, no wider than one’s foot in some places, and carved along the side of a 2,500-metre high mountain with the gorge a sheer drop below. “My company was the sound of the river and its thundering rapids suspended in the mountain air”…Jones began clambering down to the river following tiny paths created by the farmers along their terraced crops. “The wind was very strong and unnerving, and I sensed the danger of the elements and the spirits in the turbulent water. I wedged my chair into the mud and began to sketch in monochrome. Then the undulations of the mountains took on a different form and I felt I understood the Chinese way of capturing the landscape…….

December 1994 Eastern Express –“Goldfish takes the plunge”, by Vernon Ram
…An artist happy to create her own mythical paradise… The twenty three year old says: ‘My canvases project the classical traditions of Greek and Roman allegorical themes and mythological figures against a backdrop of the lush, sub – tropical vegetation found around my hilltop studio in Hok Tsui off Cape d’Aguilar near Shek – O.” On arriving back in HK Jones found a studio in a deserted village house..It had in her words the minimum of modern conveniences but commanded a spectacular view… Works such as ‘Apollo’s four seasons’ were inspired by the incredible skies that she could see from her studio. “These paintings were inspired by the volumous clouds that form just before the rainy season in Hong Kong, they were transcribed from original sketches I had made from La Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, in Rome’s Piazza Navona….. The Hong Kong art scene it has been said, fosters an incredible market of buyers, but nurtures few artists. Jones should change all that with her visions of beauty in her collection of 40 works in oils mixed media and sketches…

November 1992 South China Morning Post “She paints horses doesn’t she” by Margaret Sheridan
Hong Kong’s horse painter to the stars…her subjects are the million-dollar babies that make or break dreams, not to mention bank accounts at Happy Valley and Sha Tin race courses. Recent additions to a portfolio of dreamscapes, reclining nudes and still-life’s are larger than life noble beasts such as Fortinbras, Deerfield and River Verdon…Each commission involves five hour visits to the stables, at least twenty sketches and a roll of low light film….while being known as the Rembrandt of Sha Tin is not Jones’ lifelong dream, the income is welcome and the niche… “is a vehicle to do my work.”