Born in 1964 in Boulogne-Billancourt (France), Frank Jons has been living and working in Luxembourg since 2001. A trained accountant and finance specialist, he decided to make his childhood dream come true and devote his life to painting in 1996.

A defining moment in his artistic development was the retrospective exhibition of Maurice Estève at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1986. Whether Matisse, Van Gogh, Debré, Alechinsky, Rothko or Soulages – Jons absorbed art, but it was colour that got him hooked.

In 2000 he travelled for eight months through the USA and Canada in a camping car with his wife and their child, going all the way up to the Arctic Circle – an experience that would not only change his outlook on life but also his practice as a painter, as he switched from oil to acrylic paint for convenience.

In 2008 he won the Pierre Werner Prize, which launched him on the local scene. Since then, through a succession of solo shows, the public subsequently discovered his instinct-driven paintings where the colour seems to burst forth from the canvas.

As a marathon runner he knows it takes stamina to succeed. His painting is a physical challenge, his art a chromatic explosion. “I’m in a kind of frenzy, or trance, when I paint, a kind of elation. It’s pure energy, and I want it to be freed from all constraints.”