About

New York City based artist, Erica Jones, has been creating oil paintings for fourteen years that tell stories of cultures from around the world. Erica is inspired by the symbiosis of people in their environment and symbolic bold patterns found in textiles she has collected from her solo travels.

With a passion for visual storytelling, Erica graduated with a BFA in illustration from Parsons the New School for Design, NYC in 2007. During her undergrad education she studied painting at Lorenzo De Medici in Florence, Italy where she became fascinated with Renaissance portraits and frescoes.

After graduating she began painting portraits and murals on commission and created an after school program teaching the art of mural making to inner city youth in her hometown of Asbury Park, New Jersey.

Erica received her Masters in the Arts of Teaching from Monmouth University in 2011 and moved to Cameroon, West Africa to become the Art Director at the American School of Yaounde. There, she implemented "The Meaningful Mural Project" painting a mural at Foyer de l'Esperance Orphanage where she taught students how to create public art that affects their community.

Erica is currently the visual arts teacher at The Willis Avenue School and works with students in the South Bronx.

To contact erica for commissions, exhibitions or sales

 email: EricaJonesArt@gmail.com