As an artist and designer my principal vision is to create an electic, range of visionary style pieces that reflect users desires for comfort quality , taste and innovation. To this end I make no apologies for the broad brand signature , and a refusal to be pigeon-holed into one definitive identity. I design , paint and sculpt that which fulfils or inspires me now. I work with children , adults and those who feel inspired to collaborate on usually large public projects internationally but I am not averse to one on one joint ventures that often lead to mutually beneficial results. Synergy through symbiosis is my "raison d' etre"

Interests

• Graphic design
• Interiors
• Painting

Resume

Artist, Muralist & Design Teacher


Address: 194 Westcott Crescent, Hanwell, Ealing ,
London , W7 1NU
Telephone: 07880632849 or 0208 5752228
Email: artofafrica@hotmail.com
Website: www.peterjonas.co.uk

KEY SKILLS
 Developing +Management of, economically viable Arts Projects
 Networking Key Corporate & Government agencies to fund Creative projects
 Coordinator / Facilitator Public Cultural/ Arts Festival Events
 Teaching SEN, Design & Tech. Creativity and Social Responsibility
 Practicing Visual Artist and Corporate Muralist
6. Multi-lingual: English, French, German, Afrikaans, Dutch (beginner)

CAREER HISTORY

Slough & Eton C.of E. (Enterprise School ) Current
Design and Technology specialist teacher
Community Arts Project featured on GMTV & BBC.1 August 2010
95 sq.m Mural project created with 53 children aged 4 -19 Unveiled by Ealing’s Mayor
Salvatorian R.C. Boys College Jan 10 – July 10
Art, Graphics & Resistant Materials, Games I improved results from 17% - 61%
Art Sabbatical
Ten yearly creative project stint with community arts projects June 09 – Jan. 10
Capital City Academy , NW. London Sept 2007 -2009
Graphics Technology and Resistant Materials I improved results from 0 %- 44 %
Kingsmead School (Threshold- UPS ) Sept 2002 - 07 - QTS reg. GTC
SEN Teacher (Science), PSRE & Graphics Technology I improved results from 15% - 41 %
Kingsmead School & Chace Community School Sept 2002 - 03
Technology (Graphics), SEN ( Art Therapy- Murals)
Ernest Bevin College , London Sept 2001- 02
Resistant Materials + Graphic Design Technology Teacher
ADT College, East Putney, London Jan 2001
Resistant Materials + Graphic Design Technology Teacher
Malory High School, Bromley, Kent Sept 2000 - 01
Resistant Materials + Graphic Design Technology Teacher
The Mural Company Dec 1996 -08
Ran my own public and private Mural /Arts practice
Pinelands High School, Cape Town, South Africa 1996 -00
Lecturer Graphics and Painting, Adult Education Program
Frank Joubert Art Center, Cape Town South Africa 1996 -00
Teacher, History of Art and Drawing Skills

Indiana University Internship Program Jan- March '96
Guest Lecturer
• Political Philosophy, Language Diversity and Art in Education
• Dominican College, Marin County San Francisco, USA
• Multicultural Studies (MA Program), University of San Francisco California,

Cedar High School, Cape Town, South Africa Jan 1987 -96
Teacher of ART, Mathematics and Religious Education,
• First Position BP Mural Art Awards, 1996, 1995, 1994
• Consol Glass Environment Award 1995
• Fairest Cape Mural Art Award 1995
• Finalist, Student Art Competition , Univ. of Cape Town 1994
• Arbor Day Poster Competition
• Shell Livewire Award – won by my 3 art mentees (muralists)

St. Raphael's Primary School, Cape Town, South Africa Jan 1985 -87
Teacher, Mathematics, Art, Social Studies, English, Phys.Ed


ACHIEVEMENTS

Group Exhibition: Gallery - Love Ketchup, London 2006
Cape Argus Newspaper Group, I&J Mural 2000
Painted a 147m long mural raising funds for a new hospital wing
Television interviews and press coverage

Project Manager, One City Many Cultures, Cape Town 1999
• Secured funding and managed media coverage
• Co-ordinated this regional event with circa 287 participants (ages 12- 82yrs)
• Managed multiple mural projects for 15 high schools. Circa 250 students

Maybuye Exhibition, University of Cape Town 1999
One of twelve artists selected for this prestigious traveling exhibition

Italian Street Painting Festival, San Rafael , San Francisco ,Calif. 1998
Invited to participate in this world famous event

Ikapa Arts Festival, Events Co-ordinator, Cape Town 1996

Semi-finalist, Bertram VO, Art of Africa Competition 1995

Seef Art Gallery Exhibition - "Man on Man", Cape Town 1995

"Out of Africa" Exhibition, Zurich, Switzerland 1994
Solo debut - virtually sold out






EDUCATION & TRAINING

St Columba's High School, Cape Town 1981
5 Higher Grades in English, Afrikaans, Biology, Religious Ed., Accounting, Geography
Alliance Francaise de Mitchell's Plain 1989 - 93
French Diploma (level 1A & 2A)
Cape Town (Hewat) College of Education 1981 - 86
Higher Diploma in Education - 4yr. Practical Specialistion – ART + Pedagogics
Hirt and Carter Graphics Company, Cape Town, South Africa 1993
Computer graphics Diploma, Aldus Freehand Diploma, Adobe Photoshop
University of South Africa (Correspondence Studies ) 1994 - 95
BA Fine Art Credits (Painting 100, History of Art 100)
University of Indiana, Mid -Career Professional Development Scholarship 1996
Merit achievement - Guest Lecturing: Masters Program.
"Understanding Multi - Culturalism". ," Culture and Political Philosophy"
Mural Project development- Carlos Santana Foundation , San Rafael - California
San Rafael High school - Mural Project - “Understanding Differences”


MEMBERSHIPS & EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Fairest Cape Environmental Organisation , Cape Town 1991
Art advisor
The Committee of the Alliance Francaise, Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town 1993
Education and Culture Adviser
National Institute of Crime Rehabilitation For Offenders, Cape Town 1989 - 93
Art development facilitator
Santam Insurance Corporation, South Africa 1993
International Children's Art Competition - Adjudicator
The Arts Foundation, Cape town , SA 1995 - 96
Mural project Co-ordinator
Red Cross Children's Hospital Trust , Cape Town 1995 - 00
Corporate Fund-raiser, Major Donors ,Adressed an International conference
of Hospital Engineers on the impact of Creative Healing spaces in Hospitals
Large Mural development/ artwork 240 sq/m
National Network of Arts in Health, London 2001-02
Member/ Arts Practitioner - REF : artofafrica
Mural Celebrating World Multicultural History 2003 -07
“Artist in residence” at Kingsmead school ,SEN Teacher/ Graphics Technology
Spring School with Ponders End - Police Youth Offending Team 2004
Arts facilitator @ Chace Community School & Kingsmead School , Enfield
Media mural sponsored by Connexions for Kingsmead school 2004
Facilitator working with Gifted and Special Needs students
Drama Mural as part of successful Arts Status Bid for Dramatic Arts 2005-06
Done with the help of Special Needs students opened by Sir Cliff Richard
Kingsmead Art/ Music Building Mural 2006
Private commission covering 102 sq/m



Murals , Set Design ,Interior Decorating, C.Graphics / PhotoShop , web-design/SEO, Feng Shui, Reiki, Languages (auto-didact), Painting, Sculpture, Film production & Script analysis,Literature and Travel

I wish to sincerely thank you for perusing this synopsis of my career history and hope to be of service to your organization in the future.
To view my portfolio of noteworthy and recent artwork/mural projects mentioned above please respond via this mobile number - 07880 632849 or Website: www.peterjonas.co.uk


Artist –Teacher reference for Peter Jonas

Peter Jonas worked at Kingsmead school, a large community school in Enfield, North London from 2002-2007. He worked in Learning Support and taught Resistant Materials and Graphics as well as Citizenship. In addition he led a number of mural painting projects involving groups of students which lifted the visual environment significantly. His art skills were also significant contributors to a number of theatre productions.

Peter’s rapport with young people, particularly disaffected young people, is an area of outstanding strength. He engages confidence and secures their long-term commitment to projects. This is evident in his classroom practice and his extended-curricular work.

The mural projects have included two significant pieces in the Arts building; one links the stairwells on three floors moving from Music via Drama and Media to Art with a series of well chosen representations; the other along the Drama and Media corridor includes a number of iconic figures from the world of theatre and film including Sir Cliff Richard who signed the likeness at an event celebrating the school’s achievement of Performing and Visual Arts specialist status. A sterile corridor connecting the gyms to the back of the stage has been transformed by a mural depicting sporting endeavour. The Geography and History blocks have large circulation areas which again have been transformed as a result of Peter’s work – they provide an important visual context to study in these areas.

Peter’s contributions to school productions represent long-term commitment to large-scale creative projects involving many hours of work beyond the school day and the co-ordination of teams of volunteers. Highly effective backdrops and Stage Sets for Little shop of Horrors, My Fair Lady and The Wizard of Oz are highlights from recent years.
peter.plowman@kingsmead.org telephone 0208 3633037

Reference. Peter Jonas
I am very happy to provide a reference for Peter in relation to the remarkable impact he has had at Kingsmead School, Enfield (Performing & Visual Arts Specialist status) in terms of working with students and other artists to create a stimulating and thought-promoting colourful visual environment in the many communal areas of the school. Peter has always shown amazing imagination and tremendous talent in his expertise at transforming drab transitional areas into gems of magic visually. Many students have learnt how to contribute to the creation of these murals as well as all of the students prizing the unique and exquisite environment thus created – all of which are pertinent to their adjacent curriculum area. I think that Peter is an absolute individual and genius in his capacity to generate such enthusiasm and response through that two-dimensional medium of large-scale image and colour. As a tribute to the respect in which his work is held, no graffiti or vandalism has ever occurred subsequent to the introduction of one of his masterpieces. I hope that these celebrations to the impact of Art can eventually be more widely appreciated by an audience of experts and enthusiasts.
Giles Bird O.B.E. (Headteacher) giles.bird@virgin.net

Company

The Mural Co.

School

Cape Town College of Education, SA