Who was David Jones?  Interest in David Jones. Popularity Jones life and work has seen a resurgence in the last few years, due to an exhibition at Pallant House Chichester,  an excellent biography by Thomas Dilworth, an adaption of Jones poem In Parenthesis from Welsh National Opera, TV programmes, and the centenary of WW1. Vexilla Regis by  David Jones. This work shows Jones typical uses of layered mythic and historical references, visual layering in his painting/drawing, and elements of Palimpsest style work-methods. Who was David Jones?  He is described in Wikipedia as  " David jones, Artist-Poet:-  Walter David Jones   CH ,  CBE  (known as  David Jones , 1 November 1895 – 28 October 1974) was both a painter and one of the first-generation British  modernist  poets. As a painter he worked chiefly in watercolour, painting portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a...