Jonathan completed Access and HNC courses in Art and Design and exhibited his work, in 2014 and 2017, in the Open Studio element of the Stroud Site Festival. In July 2019 he put on his first solo exhibition of paintings at Lansdown Gallery in Stroud, ‘Outside In(Side) Out‘, and has participated twice in the North Bristol Artists Art Trail in 2019 and 2022. His work has also been featured at the Other Worlds are Possible gallery at the Corn Exchange in Bristol.
In June 2024 Jonathan curated an exhibiton inspired by his long-standing relationship with the Welsh island Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island), ‘Visions of Bardsey’. The exhibition took place on the island itself in a specially constructed gallery space, and, in addition to a new series of his own paintings, the exhibition featured the work of two other artists with close historical connections to the island.
In October 2025, as part of ‘The Bigger Picture’, a group exhibition with two other artists, Jonathan exhibited several pieces from his new ‘Resonance’ series; multi-media works linked to specific pieces of music.
In addition to painting, Jonathan also creates work using other media: 3-D, Installation, Photography, Video Art, and Sound. Some of these other forms were realised in a collaborative exhibition with poet David Slattery, ‘A Dialogue between Word and Image,’ in 2017. As part of the Stroud SITE festival in Sept 2021, he produced a series of site-specific works for a project at Woodchester Mansion in Gloucestershire, ‘Floating Flaws @ Woodchester Mansion’ in collaboration with sculptor Paul Grellier. These included a video, a soundscape, and a large collage portrait of the man behind the doomed enterprise, William Leigh. Following the Site festival the exhibition ran for a further three weeks until late October.
Jonathan Hastings (aka Jo Nathan)