By 1990 he had moved across the San Francisco Bay to a 2,000 sq. ft. studio on Lake Merritt in Oakland, CA. He remained there until 1995. At the Lake Merritt studio he produced the "The Doors", which feature eight abstractly painted doors about the effects of The Industrial Revolution on Planet Earth. He also produced
"The Tree of Knowledge..", an abstract surrealist painting with 22 separate Caran-d'Ache drawing. In 1991 Jonsson taught drawing and painting seminars to public school teachers through Phoenix University.
In 1995 Jonsson took a studio on the Jersey shore for a year. There he explored new directions in painting evidenced in works like "Male Religion" and "The First Supper" -- sexual and religious in nature.
Proximity to Manhattan allowed for reconnecting with former associates and he began the transition back into the Fine Arts arena. Entering a juried competition allowed him to be selected to exhibit in the first-ever CD-ROM virtual exhibition "Virtuosity" at the Park Avenue Armory on Park Avenue and East 66th Street in Manhattan. Over 10,000 artists worldwide entered the competion. 300 were chosen by judges and gallery owners Ivan Karp, Pamela Auchincloss and Allan Stone.
An Independent Artist, Jonsson has created large scale murals, abstract paintings, as well as realistic paintings and portraits for decades now. In addition, since 1991 he has exhibited in gallery and non-gallery shows in New York, Washington, DC, San Francisco, and Oakland, California, quite ususual for an artist straddling the Fine Arts and Design worlds.
His artwork combines the schools of realism, abstraction, surrealism, and drawing.The canvasses he currently paints are frequently only a fraction of the size of his wall paintings with some of the new work measuring a mere ten by twelve inches.
"When you use the energy it takes to create a highly realisitic mural and condense that energy down to the size of a small canvas, you get these incredibly strong paintings."
There is also a substantial 'secondary' body of work (in both Jonsson's personal collection and many more in private collections) which includes pencil and charcoal drawings, pen and inks, and custom-painted furnishings.
Jonsson is currently creating art in his Pacific Heights studio in San Francisco, California and elsewhere in the world. You can view his current online exhibition here and see archived art on the Video page.
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