Jonathan Alibone

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Jonathan Alibone creates mysterious figurative paintings and drawings with a photojournalistic quality.
Jonathan’s suggestive and stimulating visuals deprive the viewer of contextual information so that they must fill in the blanks.
Jonathan’s practice is informed by the idea that art is entirely mutable and contingent; nothing is certain.

Jonathan Alibone is a British artist whose figurative paintings and drawings have the ability to enchant and unsettle observers at once. Working within the traditions of Western Art, Jonathan’s meticulously crafted images disrupt expectations, creating narratives which invite and resist interpretation and tap into our insatiable hunger for meaning.

Jonathan Alibone’s Style and Approach

Jonathan Alibone invites the viewer to explore a world that is recognizable, yet also strange and unknowable. It is within this space, between what we can be said to know, perceive or believe, and that which remains hidden or beyond reach, that Jonathan's art is seen to operate.
His practice articulates contemporary social, cultural, and environmental anxieties through the conventions of the landscape and Romantic traditions in Western art. Through allusions to natural and cultural phenomena, Jonathan develops themes of atrophy, decay and collapse, and explores myths of origin and identity within our present (and historical) context of uncertainty and rupture.

Jonathan's practice is continually evolving, shifting restlessly from figuration, to still life, to eerie landscapes with forbidding structures, and then back again. His paintings occupy the space between the seductive and the unsettling, a liminal zone which can be understood as both a physical and a psychological landscape: a contested frontier that re-presents the familiar as something strange and uncanny, alluring and yet inscribed with menace and foreboding.

Press and Collections

Jonathan’s thrilling works have been exhibited globally, with pieces featuring in collections in the UK, Europe, Russia and North America. Jonathan is also a resident of The Artist's Sanctuary in Northampton, England, and has co-curated several exhibitions and collaborated on many projects, working in a variety of media, including video, installation, and sound.

Selected Works

A Pink Rose (no.2) by Jonathan Alibone

A Pink Rose (no.2)

Paintings - 30x25 cm
Menhir (I) by Jonathan Alibone

Menhir (I)

Paintings - 25x30 cm
Untitled (To Shelter Is To Pray) by Jonathan Alibone
Untitled (It Covers All) by Jonathan Alibone

Untitled (It Covers All)

Paintings - 25x30 cm
The View From A Hill by Jonathan Alibone

The View From A Hill

Paintings - 25x30 cm
Untitled (Where They Dwell I) by Jonathan Alibone

Untitled (Where They Dwell I)

Paintings - 25x30 cm
Untitled (Limen III) by Jonathan Alibone

Untitled (Limen III)

Paintings - 20x25 cm
Untitled (A Return To Nature) by Jonathan Alibone

Untitled (A Return To Nature)

Paintings - 20x25 cm
Widowsnare by Jonathan Alibone

Widowsnare

Paintings - 18x13 cm

Greenveil

Paintings - 18x13 cm

Sexton's Cap

Paintings - 18x13 cm

Maiden's Promise

Paintings - 21x13 cm

A Pink Rose (no.1)

Paintings - 30x25 cm

Untitled (Lacuna)

Paintings - 23x31 cm

Untitled (Apostate II)

Paintings - 25x20 cm

Untitled (A Longing Still)

Paintings - 20x25 cm

Untitled (Necropolis I)

Paintings - 25x35 cm

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