This is one of a series of small paintings that I made, of people at work and play. Here, a couple relax in a public swimming pool; perhaps he is teaching her to swim, perhaps they are just talking. The sparkling water produces hypnotic highlights and so I tried to create a dreamy out-of-focus atmosphere with the paint.

Andrew McNeile Jones

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I trained at The Ruskin School of Art in Oxford, graduating in the early 1980s with a degree in Fine Art. I moved to London and began working in the world of film and television. I learned lighting, set design and editing, and later became a producer of tv commercials. After several heady years of travel and long hours. I decided to return to my first love, painting. I moved, with my wife and young family, back to Oxford. We lived in an old farmhouse but then the chance came to build our own house. This has been an ongoing project for several years now- I built myself a new studio just this year. During this time I have exhibited in numerous art fairs and several galleries. I have been involved in lots of group shows and a few solo ones. I have won a couple of prizes and my work has sold widely across the UK, several European countries and the USA.