Autor/-in: Jonah Jones

Jonah Jones. (1919-2004) was an influential sculptor, painter, writer, engraver, letter cutter, stained glass artist and educator noted for the integrity of his work. Although born in the North East he adopted Wales and its culture as his post-war home. A friend of Clough Williams-Ellis, Bertrand Russell, and John Cowper Powys, his work was collected internationally Peter Jones was born in 1952 in Tremadog and grew up in the Criccieth and Penrhyndeudraeth areas of north Wales. During the 1970s he worked as a letter cutter in the workshop of his father, the artist Jonah Jones. He served at BBC Monitoring in Reading for 21 years as a journalist specialising in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He also worked on secondment at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Under the name of Pedr Jones, he has contributed to Radio Cymru and S4C for thirty years, commentating on the former Yugoslavia and the Middle East. Now retired he lives in Cardiff.