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After the war, Jones entered the Westminster School of Art, where he developed an interest in Post-Impressionism and studied under the British artist Walter Sickert, among other influential teachers.

He also became increasingly attracted by Roman Catholicism, and in 1921 he converted, choosing " Michael " as his confirmation name.

It was probably the priest who received Jones into the Church, Father John O ' Connor ( in fact the model for G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown character ), who suggested that he contact the Catholic artist Eric Gill.

Gill ran the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic, based on the medieval guild model, in Ditchling, Sussex.

Jones joined the guild and learned wood and copper engraving as well as experimenting with wood carving.

Jones soon began producing book illustrations for the St. Dominic's Press, and he would later illustrate for The Golden Cockerel Press, for whom he engraved the Cockerel itself in 1925.