Ray Howard-Jones

Rosemary "Ray" Howard-Jones (30 May 1903 – 25 June 1996) was a prolific Welsh painter best known for her impressionistic seascapes and paintings of the coastline of Wales, particularly of the areas around Skomer and Marloes.

[3] In 1935, she adopted the name Ray and held her first solo exhibition in 1935 at the Bloomsbury Gallery in London but her art career was interrupted by bad health, first with recurring back pains and later non-pulmonary tuberculosis, which required a prolonged period of recuperation.

[2] In July 1942 Howard-Jones submitted 11 drawings to the War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC), which were not purchased and indeed were censored for the duration of the conflict.

[6] Howard-Jones also painted scenes showing the preparations for D-Day taking place around Penarth and the Cardiff Docks.

[7] In 1946 Howard-Jones spent some time in Scotland at the art school run by James Cowie at Hospitalfield House.

[4][8] A love affair developed between Howard-Jones and Cowie and his nude study of her and her, more abstract, tribute to him are both in the Glasgow Museums collection.

[11] From 1959 Howard-Jones and Moore returned to Pembrokeshire on a regular basis, spending extended periods in a simple cottage at Martin's Haven.

[10] Howard-Jones' 1959 mosaic, "An Eye for the People", was created in Italy and installed on Thomson House, Cardiff, after the artist had won a Wales-wide competition in 1958.

[14] The 35-feet high mosaic included a giant blue eye which represented the role of the Western Mail newspaper in Wales.