Stanley Jones was a young artist when he met Robert Erskine, who ran a gallery in London's Cork Street. Erskine commissioned prints from many young artists during the 1950s. He persuaded Stanley Jones to to study the art of lithography in Paris and when Jones returned to England in the late 1950s he brought with him a skill and dedication to printing which had always survived in Paris, but which had been lost in England since the time of Whistler. Stanley Jones became a printer at Curwen Press when Curwen set up a studio for printing editions of artists' lithographs in 1958. Since then, Jones has directed the production of prints at Curwen, probably the most successful print studio in Britain. Jones made a few beautiful prints of his own which are sought after collectors' items.