photograph by Ronn Spencer ©2005
Alex Jones worked as an artist and illustrator in Los Angeles. He worked primarily in the record industry for graphic designers who had accounts with Warner Bros. Records, the Welk Music Group and Vanguard Records. For over a decade he provided cover and spot illustrations for Warner Bros. Records monthly sales catalog the "Guide". His designs have been used for posters, greeting cards, T-shirts, coffee mugs and have sold as fine art. His clients include The Los Angeles Southwest Museum, The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and Chaleur, a ceramic dinnerware manufacturer.
"The Sonora Desert has strongly influenced my artwork since I was a fine arts student. After graduating with a BFA, I moved to Tucson and began working for a group of independent contractors constructing obstacles for miniature golf courses that were part of a chain of game parks under the name "Castle Golf & Games". I was in charge of all the artwork and painting of these scaled down versions of Victorian mansions, European scenes, Dutch windmills, water wheels and other obstacles that were a colorful, comically garish departure from what you would normally expect to see in this desert landscape. While working on these game parks I began to form the ideas that later became the basis for the artwork in my portfolio once I began to work as an illustrator in Los Angeles. Over the years I developed the style represented in the paintings I've showcased on this web site. I marketed and licensed these works under my company name Roadside Distractions. These paintings I created for Roadside Distractions portray what I would call a winsome tableau of my own nostalgia deeply rooted in this landscape."