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steWart lytle / the toWN CommoN
Richard Burke
Jones: Lawyer,
City Clerk, Painter
Jones, from page 1
The first painting, drawn from
a crow’s nest perspective, was of
the Unitarian Church on Pleasant
Street as it might have looked in
1860. Sails of clipper ships can be
seen on the river, carrying goods to
mills that lined the waterfront. He
then painted the harbor, which fascinated
him, and Market Square at
Christmas with his daughters posing
as carolers.
For a gallery showing several
years ago, his work was described
as, “Viewing the scene from a high
vantage, these sprawling panoramas
at once convey a sense of expansive
calm before drawing the
viewer into the bustle of everyday
lives of people and commerce in
a historical port city. From the
attention to detail in the architecture
of a nineteenth century
building, the presence of a ship at
port on the Merrimack River, or
the feeling of weight in a turning
carriage, Jones gives a sense of a
living environment in an idealized
moment frozen in time.”
Last Friday, Jones set up his easel
on State Street across from the old
Fowles drug store. He was fascinated
by the buildings and streetscape,
particularly when the streetlights
came on, and wanted to capture the
historic Fowles sign. Standing in the
cold with his paints in a box on the
brick sidewalk, he sketched the scene
for an oil painting. The sidewalk was
crowded; the street was busy. The
curious stopped to watch, a few to
talk, including John, a transplanted
Brit who asked, “Would you be
Richard Jones?” Thus, began a new
conversation.
“I have met some amazing people,”
Jones said.
When painting once on a street
corner in Nantucket, he was approached
by a man, who asked if
he could buy the painting when
it was finished. Jones agreed and
the man left his “associate” to wait
for the finished painting. “Do you
know who that was?” the associate
asked. When Jones shook his
head, he was told the man was an
heir to the Mellon family, one of
the richest men in America.
In Portsmouth, NH, recently,
a professional photographer
asked if he could shoot his photo,
while he painted. A woman with
him watched and declared his art
touched her soul. She googled
Jones, and he in turn googled her.
She turned out to be an Italian
model doing a photo shoot with
historic downtown Portsmouth as
the backdrop.
While painting at Bartlett Mall,
a woman, walking her dog, shouted
to him, “Hey, are you the guy
who posts?” He agreed that he
did show his art on the Internet.
“Thank you for sharing,” the
woman said.
On a YouTube video of his work
that he narrated several years ago,
Jones explains why he paints.
“Growing up in Newburyport, a
small New England town, I had
a deep sense that it was a special
place with meaningful architecture.”
He did not know then that
one day he would capture the
city’s style and significance on canvas,
discovering for himself that
painting forced him to notice the
differences and the beauty of each
house, building and landscape.
For more on Jones and his art,
visit https://richard-burke-jones.
myshopify.com. There you will
find his art on canvases, but also
on sweatshirts, pillows, and thanks
to Covid-19, facemasks.