Painter and draughtsman, born in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, as Violet Madeline Josette Jones. She began painting as a young girl in Jamaica, and her studies included Paris and Zurich in the late-1930s. In 1933 the director of the Tate Gallery, J B Manson, introduced Jones to Wildenstein Gallery, which gave her her first solo show in 1935, from which Contemporary Art Society bought Still Life with Green Peppers. In 1938 she had a show at Galerie Zborowski, Paris, with another at Wildenstein in 1939. In that year she moved to London, where she was thereafter based, although she had a cottage and studio in Dorset. During the war worked as a land girl in Dorset and in Intelligence. There were four distinct working periods as a painter: in Paris and London before the war, in Spain in the 1950s, Morocco in the 1960s and after that mainly in Dorset with occasional journeys abroad, especially to Vevey and Zürich.