During the period 1959 - 1965 he exhibited works in the Fine Arts Society Galleries, London; the Tryon Gallery, London; the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions and the Chelsea Artists Exhibitions, London. He also produced book illustrations, book cover designs as well as graphic designs for print media advertising and television.
In 1965 he moved to Denmark where he lived and worked for the next three years and studied shore birds, waterfowl and birds of prey on the island of Zealand.
1968 saw another move, this time to Australia where since 1970 Humphrey Price-Jones has owned and worked a beef cattle property, "Glan Aber", near Crookwell on the Southern Tablelands of NSW.
Although a wildlife artist, his great talent as a landscape painter is evidenced by being awarded two major prizes in this genre in the 1970s - The Rural Bank Prize for Landscape Painting at the Sydney Royal Show and The Sydney Waratah Festival Prize for Landscape Painting.
His first one-man exhibition in Sydney was in 1979 at the Barry Stern Galleries where his work featured in several subsequent, major one-man exhibitions and many mixed exhibitions throughout the 1980s.
Humphrey Price-Jones' combination of scientific and artistic skills is particularly evident in his book "Australian Birds of Prey" which he wrote and illustrated. The book depicts Australia's 24 species of birds of prey in superb paintings complemented by black and white drawings and detailed descriptions of the birds, their habits, hunting methods and breeding cycles. The book was published in a limited edition as well as a trade edition. It is one of the most significant works of its type produced in Australia.
Between 1988 and 1991 he completed 100 paintings of birds and mammals commissioned by Lord McAlpine of West Green.
Price-Jones' work has been the subject of articles in numerous journals, newspapers and periodicals including Poll, Woman's Weekly, Highlife, The Land, The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald. He has also been interviewed on television and on a number of occasions by ABC Radio on the subjects of Wildlife and Wildlife Art.
The Victoria State Library Archives interviewed Humphrey Price-Jones in 1984 regarding his work and his contribution to Australian art.
Humphrey Price-Jones' work is represented in private and public collections in the U.K., U.S.A., Europe, the Middle East (the Emir of Bahrain) and Australia.
In Australia his work has been collected by:
University of Sydney
University of NSW Press
QANTAS
Artbank
Doubleday Australia
Australian City Properties
CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation).
Cable Beach Resort, Broome, W.A. holds a permanent collection and exhibition of his work.
In 2003 and 2004 Humphrey Price-Jones' work was selected as finalist entries in both of the two dimensional categories of the internationally acclaimed Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize.
In Australia, Humphrey exhibits his work in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Broome and Canberra
Major One Man Exhibitions
1980 Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1983 Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1987 Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1990 Greenhill Gallery, Perth, W.A.
1993 Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2000 Eddie Glastra Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2002 Made from Australia Gallery, Canberra
2003 Wiregrass Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2004 Bellthorpe , Berrima, NSW
2006 Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2007 Monsoon Gallery, Broome, W.A.
2010 South Hill Gallery, NSW
2011 South Hill Gallery, NSW
Numerous mixed exhibitions : Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne and Perth.
Publications
Price-Jones, H. 1983
Australian Birds of Prey
Doubleday Australia
Drury, N. (ed) 1987
New Art One : New Directions in Contemporary Australian Art
Craftsman House
Germaine, M. 1990
Artists and Galleries of Australia
Craftsman House
Olsen, P. 1995
Australian Birds of Prey
University of N.S.W. Press
Olsen, P. 2001
Feather and Brush
Three Centuries of Australian Bird Art
C.S.I.R.O. Publishing
Olsen, P. 2005
Wedge-tailed Eagle
C.S.I.R.O. Publishing
Price-Jones, H. (to be released late 2007)
Spirit of the Wedge-tailed Eagle
The Art of Humphrey Price-Jones
C.S.I.R.O. Publishing
Price-Jones, H. (in preparation for publishing)
Completed 50 major paintings and a large number of drawings for a prestigious book concerning Australian waterfowl.
Paintings / illustrations featured in numerous, prestigious volumes dealing with Australian birds of prey.
