NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
7th February 2023
7 February 2023 Following the completed installation of the restored dalle de verre windows by Jonah Jones in St David’s Catholic Church in Mold, various features have been broadcast and aired on news channels in Wales and posted on online news platforms. On 17 December 2022 Nation.Cymru posted an article, […]
16th December 2022
16 December 2022 An article has been published in The Leader, the regional newspaper for the Wrexham and Flintshire areas, about the successful transfer of 12 restored 1960s dalle de verre windows by Jonah Jones: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.leaderlive.co.uk%2Fnews%2F23174962.historic-stained-glass-windows-get-new-home-flintshire-church%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7C96b1f46adc214a5676c708dadc5d41c6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638064590331241064%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=XfVtfsM8SwKSSrNvTbBtLXWAewNtxXHUHlo7ZDiTwMQ%3D&reserved=0
29th November 2022
29 November 2022 Scene & Word is delighted to announce the successful completion of a major six-year public art conservation project following the installation of the last of 12 refurbished dalle de verre windows by Jonah Jones at St David’s Church, Mold. The final batch included one panel that had […]
31st October 2022
31 October 2022 The Architectural Glass Centre (AGC) at the Swansea College of Art have completed the restoration of 12 spectacular dalle de verre windows by Jonah Jones. On 28 October 2022, the AGC delivered a final panel to St David’s Church, Mold, where the windows are being relocated. While […]
25th October 2022
25 October 2022 We’ve been told many times that we should turn Jonah’s images into greetings cards. Finally we have done so with the launch of six cards with a ‘Christmas feel’ – snow, angels, that sort of thing… The images we chose for this set of cards are: two […]
22nd June 2022
22 June 2022 The first four windows to be installed at St David’s, Mold. Photographs by Mike Bunting. A six-year project to rescue, restore and relocate a set of 12 large church windows by Jonah Jones is nearing a successful conclusion. The windows were made in 1966 for a Catholic […]
21st June 2022
21 June 2022 Last seen publicly at the Jonah Jones Centennial Exhibition in 2019, Jonah’s Jacob and the Angel (sandstone, 1959) is currently part of the ‘Bequest of William G. Lewis, 2021’ show at the Glyn Vivian, Swansea. The show runs until Sunday 18 September 2022.
7th April 2022
7 April 2022 Jonah Jones briefly noted in his daily journal on 28th February 1988 that “it’s William Morgan’s anniversary, and there’s two jobs there.” Just over two months later, on 9th May, he added that he had “fixed Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant plaques with some success.” The two roundels, which commemorate a […]
15th March 2022
15 March 2022 On 5 September 1947 in Haifa, Jonah Jones married Judith Grossman, the daughter of Jews from the Ukrainian city of Odesa. She herself was born in Dnipro, in central Ukraine. Shortly after her birth the family fled the country to escape the civil war in the collapsed […]
28th February 2022
3 March 2022 The great wooden rood cross carved in the mid-1960s by Jonah Jones for the former Loyola Hall Jesuit retreat centre in Rainhill, Merseyside, was relocated in 2012 to the new chapel of St Joseph’s School in Hurst Green, Lancashire. An article published at the time on stpetersstonyhurst.org.uk […]
3rd February 2022
3 February 2022 Another “forgotten” work by Jonah has come to light through its owner contacting us via the Oriel Jonah Jones ‘Tell us about lost work’ link. The owner, who prefers to remain anonymous, wrote that the sculpture was bought by his parents-in-law during the 1970s. It is very […]
2nd February 2022
3 February 2022 Two more forgotten works by Jonah have come to light during the course of 2021 after being bought at auction through Rogers Jones Co in Cardiff. Both buyers prefer to remain anonymous, but we are very grateful to them for allowing us to report on the “rediscovery” […]
9th January 2022
9 January 2022 The Winter 2021 issue of the Welsh-language literary review O’r Pedwar Gwynt published a letter from Peter Jones, a director of Scene & Word Ltd, in response to the interview by Shelagh Hourahane with the artist and cultural historian Peter Lord, which appeared in the Spring 2021 […]