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Artist Randy Jones returns to Blyth to sign mural
Big art
Randy Jones, a well-established artist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The
Wall Street Journal and The Economist, was in Blyth last week to see his special Blyth mural
blown up to wall -size for the first time. The mural hangs in the Drummond Hall at Blyth Cowbell
Brewing Company. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
Randy Jones, the celebrated artist
and Exeter native, was in Blyth last
week to put his name to one of
his more notable recent and local
works of art.
Jones was welcomed to Cowbell
Brewing Company to sign a mural of
Blyth he first drew for the Blyth
14/19 Cultural Initiative. The
company had the drawing turned
into a ceiling -high mural in its
Drummond Hall.
Jones and his wife Susann Ferris -
Jones, neither of whom had been to
the Cowbell location before, went
for a tour with Floyd Herman after
speaking about his creation.
The piece, which shows Blyth's
main street, features a number of its
well-known landmarks, traits and
establishments. It then goes on to
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include, in the distance, bigger cities
like Goderich, Exeter (Jones's
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Jones told those assembled at
Cowbell that day that his piece took
inspiration from a well-known New
Yorker cover by Saul Steinberg,
entitled "View of the World from 9th
Avenue". The piece illustrates New
York City's well-known 9th Avenue
and continues across the Hudson
River to New Jersey and eventually
to Asia.
He said he enjoyed seeing his
piece blown up to the size of the
mural, where he could further
investigate the intricacies of his
pencil work, for example, where he
had erased drawings, but faint pencil
marks still remained.
Jones, who has illustrated for the
New York Times, the Wall Street
Journal and the Economist, is now
hard at work on a new book about
U.S. President Donald Trump, with
an old journalist friend of his, that
should be out later this year.
He is also known for producing
the Blyth Festival's four main stage
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Marie Bottrell as Dolly Parton
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