Joanna Jones was born Joanna Cock and changed her name to Joanna Jones in 1973.

Jones paints and actively pursues a strategic role for the arts in Dover UK. Educated at the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools in London.  In 1973 she co-founded the London studio collective, The Works and in 1978 moved to Germany returning to the UK and settling in Dover in 1997.

In Frankfurt-am-Main she was represented by Galerie Klaus Werth and later Galerie Wild. She had solo shows at the Haus am Lutzow Platz and the Charité in Berlin. She received a scholarship from Künstlerhaus Balmoral in 2000 and an ACE Year of the Artist award for a projection on the White Cliffs of Dover at Samphire Hoe in 2001. In 2006 the Cyprus based Pharos Art Foundation published a book on her paintings. In 2006 she co-founded Dover Arts Development (DAD) with artist Clare Smith. As Director of DAD she imagines, curates & delivers projects within the visual arts, sound and architecture and has steered DAD to its new iteration of directors since Clare’s death in 2022. In her home she has a residency space  for visiting artists and an Urban Room for meetings, events, salons and conversations. She exhibits her paintings (inter)nationally and is represented by Galerie Gilla Lörcher in Berlin since 2017.