Galerie P6 is pleased to present SURGE, a new exhibition by artist Ian Jones, bringing forth a vivid series of original photographic works transformed through digital technology and printed onto canvas.

With SURGE, Ian Jones turns his camera towards the world immediately around him: the city, its monuments and architecture, its people and encounters, its gardens and open skies. Theatre, stages and opera appear alongside everyday scenes, creating a visual world in which the ordinary and the extraordinary continually intersect. Jones begins each work with his own original photography. His instinctive eye for light, composition and the fleeting nature of a moment allows him to capture scenes with an immediate sense of atmosphere. These photographs then become the foundation for a process of digital transformation. Through manipulation and AI technologies, Jones alters, intensifies and reimagines the original images, creating works that remain rooted in photography while evolving beyond photographic reality.

The result is a body of work that is lush, vibrant and charged with colour and light. Architectural forms can become more dramatic; gardens and skies take on an almost heightened luminosity; figures and encounters acquire a sense of theatre. The city itself becomes a stage—a place where people, structures, nature and light continually come together in fleeting compositions.

The title SURGE speaks to this heightened visual experience. It suggests a sudden movement of energy or emotion, and reflects Jones’s approach to transforming a captured moment into something more expansive. Rather than simply recording what he sees, he follows the image beyond its original boundaries, allowing intuition and technology to shape new possibilities.

At the centre of Jones’s practice is the act of seeing. His photographs begin with real encounters and spontaneous moments, but his subsequent transformations invite the viewer into a more subjective and imaginative realm- between the familiar and the surreal.

Jones’s work reflects his ongoing interest in art history, travel, community, nature and human connection. His sensitivity to the ephemeral allows him to discover visual possibilities in the everyday- extended to observations in new forms.

SURGE is ultimately an exhibition about perception: about the moment when seeing becomes imagining, when a photograph becomes something more than a record, and when the familiar world suddenly appears transformed.