Comments on: Dan Jones’ Paintings

By: Robin Ellams

Robin Ellams — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 19:25:52 +0000

The link to “Dan’s Singing Playground” isn’t working. Does anyone have an update?
Fond Memory and Best Wishes,
Robin
P.S. Can be contacted at “Anon2 at smallenibor dot net”

By: Jack Warshaw

Jack Warshaw — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:11:09 +0000

Hello Dan, we met long ago as activists. I was in Ewan MacColl’s Critics Group then. I wrote the Grunwick Song
https://jackwarshaw.bandcamp.com/track/hold-the-line-again-the-grunwick-strike

and the Red Lion Square song about Cable Street. https://jackwarshaw.bandcamp.com/track/red-lion-square

Your work continues to inspire all of us to never give up. I’m still writing and singing. I have one of your Grunwick posters on display in my home. I wish I could have many others.
Fraternally
Jack

By: Peter Hart

Peter Hart — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 14:34:50 +0000

Absolutely brilliant work. Thanks for sharing.

By: Mike Layward

Mike Layward — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:48:47 +0000

Wow so many memories. i met you Dan in the early 1970s when i was a squatter in Bow and friends with the Myrdle street squatters in Whitechapel. I think I knew you through the Stepney claimants Union and the adventure playground i worked on in poplar. Such beautiful paintings. Thanks
Mike Layward

By: Sheila McGregor

Sheila McGregor — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 11:15:56 +0000

Hi Dan,
Thank you so much for coming to the Tower Hamlets SUTR event last night with your painting of Blair’s funeral. I was just so happy you came!
And so was everyone else.
We intend to auction the copy you left to raise funds for TH SUTR, hope that is OK with you. But I would love a copy for myself and wondered if you could let me know how to get hold of it. I totally missed the auction that closed in March.

In solidarity
Sheila McGregor
Convenor Tower Hamlets Stand Up to Racism

By: Martine Hall

Martine Hall — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:21:03 +0000

I have the immense pleasure of working with Dan at the moment to bring together his playground games collection and pictures for a website. Happy to keep people posted via this site on our progress.

By: val smith

val smith — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:26:43 +0000

I was waiting to see the painting of Wellclose school and it turned out to be the one Dan was photographed in front of. The print of this was bought for me by my friend many years ago as it was the school her nan attended. I absolutely love it.

By: Kathy Dancy

Kathy Dancy — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 18:12:53 +0000

Are you the Dan Jones I recall involved with the squatters in Stepney in 1969?

By: Chris Shirley - Smith

Chris Shirley - Smith — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 20:16:53 +0000

Dear Dan,

I can only thank you for your skill at evoking history past and present in such wonderful paintings. I have had three of your pictures on my walls for decades, but unfortunately they have inevitably faded. I managed to get a couple of them from the run at the exhibition you had in a library building last year, but I could not get my favorite which is the ‘E1 Festival, Shadwell Basin of 1977. Perhaps I like it because you captured Dennis the Dragon amidst the crowds.
If you can advise me how to obtain a new bright copy, please let me know.

Hope yu continue to paint these important scenes.
Very best wishes to you and your good lady wife.

Chris Shirley – Smith

By: John Cunington

John Cunington — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:39:41 +0000

Absolutely Brillant Dan.

John Cunnington
ex War on Want