RHODES presents Radar, the debut solo exhibition by London based artist Edward Jones. This new series of five paintings on canvas push his ongoing experiments with paint, materiality and texture into fresh territory. Building on his recent landscapes and richly layered work, Radar intensifies his inquiry into how materials interact and how images resist easy interpretation.

In the series, Jones continues to use light-sensitive and resist-based paint techniques so that the surface of each canvas becomes a site of mutation and erasure. He restrains the palette into nuanced, camouflaged tones which at first glance suggest landscape or place. The work challenges the viewer, offering both opacity and revelation, withholding clarity in order to deepen the act of seeing.

Jones’ prior pieces showed his aptitude for dark, tonal layering in oils to evoke ambiguous light. His works have become instantly recognisable for their deep tones and play between figurative and abstraction. In Radar he builds upon that foundation but introduces resistance as a formal principle. Pigments react with one another; textures form not only by addition but through subtraction, scraping, masking or letting paint recede. Each painting resists being fully read, or fully known.
The camouflage in this work is not meant to deceive. It is an insistence that surfaces are alive with hidden processes, that seeing must entail patience. The more one looks, the more the painting reveals itself. Light plays off surfaces, shapes become suggestions rather than statements, moments of erasure weigh as much as moments of mark.

Radar invites a slower kind of looking. Through these works, Jones asks the viewer to linger within uncertainty, to allow perception to shift and re-form. What emerges is a dialogue between surface and depth, presence and disappearance.