《尴尬之美》是将Lucy Jones过去25年创作的肖像画和山水画集于一身的**本出版物，介绍了一种鲜明生动的绘画语言的演变，她就是用这种语言来描述世界，她自己以及其他人的（最近）。这本书用100多个彩色版作为插图，展示了Jones广泛的情感范围，从在英国乡村描绘的色彩浓密和经过大力修饰的远景，到她对人物的原始而有力的表达，都体现了琼斯自身残疾的脆弱性和力量，以及社会看待他人差异的方式。

British artist Lucy Jones has been described by art critic Jackie Wullschlager as ‘the most exciting English colourist of her generation’ With a clear and often brutally frank vision, her paintings connect a journey through exterior landscapes and interior worlds.   Awkward Beauty is the first publication to draw together both her portraits and landscape paintings produced over the past 25 years, tracing the evolution of a distinctively vibrant painterly language, which she has used to describe the world, herself and, most recently, other people. Illustrated with more than 100 colour plates, the book demonstrates Jones’s broad emotional range, from densely chromatic and vigorously wrought vistas painted in the British countryside, to her raw and powerfully expressive presentations of the figure, addressing the vulnerabilities and the strengths of Jones’s own disabilities, and society’s way of viewing difference in others.