Barbara Jones – FRAI  SOA  RA
First attended art school in Croydon (1931’33) before winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Art (1933’36), where she met painter Cliff Barry whom she married in 1941.

A prolific and varied artist, during WWII she worked with the Pilgrim Trust on the Recording Britain series, making one of
the largest contributions of the 63 artists taking part. She wrote and illustrated books on design history, many of which are today considered seminal, including The Unsophisticated Arts, 1951 and Design for Death, 1967.

After the 1946, Jones created murals for the 1946 ‘Britain Can Make It ‘exhibition, and the 1947 Enterprise Scotland exhibition[7] She also worked creating murals for the passenger liner ships, SS Oronsay, SS Orsova and SS Oriana.
In 1951, she organised the Black Eyes and Lemonade: Curating Popular Art exhibition held at the Whitechapel Gallery for the Festival of Britain. A fellow of the Society of Industrial Artists from the same year, she was made vice president in 1969. She was also a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and a member of the Society of Authors.