About me
Born in 1957, and brought up in the Quaker village of Jordans in Buckinghamshire. At the age of five, her aptitude for drawing came to the attention of Arthur Wheen (keeper of the V&A library), who nurtured her talent. She was also encouraged by her father, an accomplished studio potter. In 1984 Lomas followed her bent and graduated from Cardiff College of Art with a first class honours degree.
She now lives, works and creates in Newlyn, Cornwall. Since leaving art school, (by which time, married and known as Jones), she has continued to make work with an interest in the minutiae. The studio is full of curious assortments of organic materials; mounds and rows of small bones, stones, and sticks. At first glance identical, but on closer inspection there are slight differences in tiny detail, be it weathering or the twist of a knot. These may become one of her creatures with it’s gaping mouth painted meticulously and mounted upon a delicate plinth as if some rare extinct museum exhibit. Collections, repetitions, progressions and groups have always fascinated her, as have medical paraphernalia and the periodic table. From these assemblies, communities of people and creatures are born. From colourful mutated hybrids to orphaned babies to psycho pigs in doll’s dresses, together they emerge from Lomas’ inner world. There is an intriguing vulnerability about the work that is also edgy and menacing with a splash of devilish humour.
Lomas has deliberately spent years in obscurity, she now feels it’s time for her creatures to go out into the world.