Shug Jones
Shug Jones, a seventh generation Texan, is from North Texas, where she returned after living several years in Southeast Asia and Europe with her Navy husband. These experiences plus her continued travel have greatly inspired and influenced her mosaics. While she occasionally works abstractly with smalti and stone, her love of stained glass draws her to create photo-realistic art that concentrates on her observance of people around her and their interactions with others.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
"In 2018, I began a series of works I call Mosaic Photographs. They are based on images that I capture on my frequent travels in the U.S. and abroad. Primarily figurative and architectural in nature, they are meant to be viewed as one would a normal photograph.
The realism in my work is achieved by using value, color, and perspective. Preferring to use stained glass in most of my work, I find that the variety of glass, the swirls, the texture, the colors, lends itself to my needs. Identifying that just right area of the perfect glass to create the fabric of a pair of pants or to represent the shadow on a face is a challenge that I readily accept.
Most recently, I have worked to develop a substrate that is very thin and rigid while appearing flexible like a sheet of photographic paper to advance the appearance of my work to reach my goal. A mosaic photograph, a moment in time."
ARTIST'S PORTFOLIO
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Harmonica Man (Busker)
Stained glass and metal rods on handmade substrate
A Rainy Day in St. Andrews
Stained glass, stringers noodles, marble, slate, fine glass frit
Taking a Break
Stained glass, filati, fine glass frit
Bathing Beauties in Maine
Stained glass
Crossing Against the Light
Stained glass, watercolor under glass, glass noodles, paint pen
Ceoltoir Sraide - Galway, Ireland
Stained glass, glass noodles, filati, raku pottery, and metal crimps
Atlantic City Winter
Stained glass on handmade substrate
Catching Up with Il Gazzettino
Stained glass, thinset
It's Just Over There
Stained glass, Van Gogh glass, Luster glass, filati, Paint Pen
Study #1 for Richmond Hill
Stained glass, gold mirror glass, filati, paint pen
La Gran Passeggiata a Torcello
Stained glass
The Maestros' Critique
Stained glass, filati, marble, sand
A Pint at the Pub
Stained glass
Study for The Duke of York
Stained glass, Van Gogh glass, print under glass, filati
Study #2 for Richmond Hill
Stained glass, glass, filati
Early Morning Paddle
Stained glass
Reading the Paper
Stained glass
Dalrock Diner
Stained glass, iridescent glass, mirror glass, gold-colored wire, paint pen
Belfast Mini-Me
Stained glass, glass rods and noodles, paint
Next Stop, Kings Cross
Stained glass, glass rods, stringers, and noodles, Apoxie clay, fine gravel
A Morning Walk in Venice
Stained glass, filati, metal wire, millefiori
Best Friends
Stained glass
Stacey and Kevin
Stained glass, 24k white gold smalti
Girl with the Red Umbrella
Stained glass, paint, paint pen, filati
Coming into the Light
Italian and Mexican smalti
Richmond Hill - The Roebuck
Stained glass, glass noodles, glass stringers, flash glass
Duke of York
Stained glass, glass noodles, glass stringers