FAY JONES
2005 Recipient of the Twining Humber
Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement

Artist Trust proudly announces painter Fay Jones of Seattle as the fifth recipient of the Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. During the 30 years she has been exhibiting on the West Coast, Jones has become one of the region's most esteemed artists. Working exclusively on paper with acrylics, watercolor and sumi ink, Jones often incorporates collaged materials in her paintings to achieve an unusually rich and singular surface. Her trademark style and otherworldly cast of recurring characters have become an integral part of our aesthetic landscape. Jones' work has been featured in over 100 solo and group exhibitions, and is included in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Boise Museum of Art among others. Among the awards Fay Jones has received are two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a residency at La Napoule Art Foundation.

In 1997, the Boise Museum of Art held a 20-year retrospective on Jones' work (with an accompanying exhibition catalogue), and, in 2000, a catalogue of her work Fay Jones was distributed by University of Washington Press. Jones will be honored by Artist Trust at a reception to be held at the Frye Art Museum while a profile on her life and work will be featured in the the Artist Trust Journal available in early May.

In late February 2005, a selection panel comprised of one visual artist and two arts professionals chose Fay Jones from a pool of 16 nominated artists. This year's panel included: Spokane artist Louise Kodis, writer and independent curator Barbara Johns, and Susan Parke, curator at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner.