Heather Smith Jones is a studio artist and instructor. She received an M.F.A. from The University of Kansas in 2001 and a B.F.A. degree from East Carolina University in 1996.

Smith Jones resides in Lawrence, Kansas with her husband and their three cats. This summer she is enjoying time in her new studio and tending their vegetable and flower garden.




"My paintings intuitively originate with fields of abstract color. I use marks, patterns, pinholes, words, and imagery to visually sew information together.
I examine relationships within the detailed world of human experience through painting. Particular thoughts, objects, experiences, and memories, become in my mind, moments of beauty when understood on a phenomenological level. Replanting elements from the natural world in an abstract way allows new correlations to become recognizable."