Jean Verity Jones (5 July 1927 – 28 April 2012) was an English painter who spent the majority of her life living in Oxford, Devon and Primrose Hill.
[1][2] She produced over 400 artworks, including a variety of landscapes, portraits, self-portraits and still lifes, which engage varyingly with the legacies of Expressionism and Post-Impressionism.
[5] Her only brother, John Armstrong Robinson also became a civil servant, serving most notably as Head of Britain's European Integration Department from 1968 to 1970, and Assistant Under-Secretary of State from 1971 to 1973.
[8][7] Jones's work is deeply engaged in the significant places of her life, in particular her surroundings in Primrose Hill, Oxford and the Devon countryside.
[10] During her lifetime, those in possession of Jones's work included the Tolkien family, the Golding estate, as well as the critic John Carey, the Bishop John Oliver, the mathematician Harry Pitt, the literary agent and publisher Hilary Rubinstein, the novelist and academic Rachel Trickett, the American author and critic Diana Trilling and academics Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and J.M.