Thomas William Jones Gallery A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, Thomas Jones is a landscape painter who was born and raised in Bay Village, Ohio a small town near Lake Erie. He lives in Washington State at Snohomish, near Seattle. He is known for his watercolor scenes of rural America, that harken back to a time of scenic back roads and peaceful-appearing farms. Subjects are from the Midwest, Northwest and New England. He describes his style as representational impressionism. Jones trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio, but considers himself primarily self-taught. Images of his paintings have been used on White House Christmas cards. An exhibition of thirty years of the artist's work took place in 1990 at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington.