Ezzelina Jones

Ezzelina Jones born Ezzelina Gwenhwyfar Williams aka Gwen Jones (28 June 1921 – 7 November 2012) was a Welsh artist and sculptor.

Life Jones was born in Pontarddulais near Swansea. Her parents both had the last name of Williams, Godfrey Hugh Beddoe Williams and Elizabeth Mary Williams. They gave her the name of Ezzelina as one of her fathers co-workers had lost his daughter However the name they used was Gwen or Gwenhwyfar. Her mother died when she was a child. She left the local school at fourteen and she worked locally and in London before she married a local man named Elias Llewelyn Jones. At nineteen she was bringing up a child alone as Elias was serving in Africa as a flight sergeant during the Second World War. After the war he worked in the local tin works as her father had also done, until his promotion took the family to Llanelli where they had a second child. In 1983 she completed a commission to create bronze bust of a collier for the Welsh Miners Museum in the Afan Valley. Her work was included in galleries in Bristol and Manchester.

In 2017 a talk was given at the National Library of Wales about Jones and Elizabeth Vera Bassett because they had both been born in Pontarddulais and established a wider reputation but they were not too valued in Wales.