About
Robert W. Mountjoy
Robert Mountjoy was born in Bideford, North Devon, UK. He grew up in Appledore at the confluence of the Taw and Torridge rivers. He attended the local grammar school and trained at St Paul’s, Cheltenham before reading for a degree at Bristol University. In 1972 he took up his first art teaching post in Cheltenham and has since taught in secondary, tertiary and higher education.
After a period of still life painting he returned to abstract work in 2020, drawing inspiration from sketches made during a visit to Andalucia in September 2019 (see Gallery 7). An expedition to the Arctic Circle in August 2021 inspired the Finnmark series of drawings and paintings (Gallery 8). He returned to his roots in 2022/3 drawing working waterfronts and developed a new series of paintings in response (see Gallery 10 ).
Mountjoy is a compulsive draughtsman and carries small sketchbooks into which he makes ‘furtive scribbles’. These are often reworked, sometimes on a larger scale. The process encourages meditation on the subject and through this he finds the motifs and metaphors that inform his paintings.
Robert Mountjoy has been a fervant supporter of the South West Academy. He was elected an academician in 2003 and served twelve years as a trustee and three years chair. In 2021 he was made an Honorary Academician.
He was elected to the 21 Group in 2021 and became its Chair in 2023.
He became a member of the Plymouth Society of Artists in 2023.
He became a member of the Parcus Academy in 2025.
Images
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Sales
Paintings are not sold from this website or from the studio. Paintings are sold only through those galleries representing the artist (see Sales Page) and galleries that exhibit groups shows that he is included in (see Events Page).
Exhibitions
· The Old Bakery Gallery, Cheltenham 1972
· Cheltenham Group Exhibitions 1972 -1984
· Royal West of England Academy 1979 - 1984, 2002, 20014, 2015, 2016
· The Park Gallery, Cheltenham 1982
· Rooksmoor Gallery, Bristol 1983
· Delahaye Gallery, Cirencester 1984
· Mayflower Gallery, Tavistock 1999
· Royal Society of Marine Artists 2005
· Mall Galleries, Lynn Painter Stainer Award (shortlisted artists) 2005
· The Wharf , Tavistock 1996 and 2016
· Beaux Arts, Bath 2006 - 2009
2017
SWAc at The Thelma Hulbert Gallery January 2017
SWAc at Exeter Castle, November 2019
· Tincleton Gallery, Dorset 2017
SWAc at Delamore Arts May 2017
SWAc at the Penwith Gallery, St Ives 2017
SWAc at Exeter Castle, November 2019
2018
SWAc at The Thelma Hulbert Gallery January2018
SWAc at Delamore Arts June 2018
SWAc at Exeter Castle, November 2018
2019
SWAc at The Thelma Hulbert Gallery 2019
· Ariel Centre, Totnes 2019 (With Michael Carter SWAc)
SWAc at Delamore Arts June 2019
SWAc at Exeter Castle, November 2019
2020
SWAc at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery January/February 2020
SWAc at Delamore Arts June 2020 (online Corona Virus restrictions)
SWAc at the Penwith Gallery, St Ives April 2020
SWAc at Exeter Castle November/December 2020 (online Corona Virus restrictions)
2021
Royal institute of Painters in Water Colours - Mall Gallery, London, UK - May 2021
21 Group - Limekiln Gallery, Calstock, Cornwall, UK - 2021
SWAc at Delamore Arts, Cornwood UK - May 2021
21 Group at The Penwith Gallery, Back Road West, St Ives, Cornwall, UK- 2021
Artizan Gallery at Lucius Street Torquay, (“stunning work in three solo shows from Sally Baldwin, Robert Mountjoy and Katie Jamieson”) - May 2021.
21 Group at the Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes, Devon, UK - October 2021
SWAc at Kennaway House, Sidmouth, UK - November 2021
2022
21 Group at the ArtMill Gallery, Plymouth, UK - March 2022
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, The Mall London, UK - March 2022
21 Group at The Artizan Gallery, Torquay, UK - September 2021 and August 2022
SWAc at Falmouth Gallery, Novemeber UK- 2022
Finnmark Series of Paintings and Drawings - solo exhibition, Birdwood House, Totnes,UK - October 2022
2023
21 Group at the Artmill Gallery, Plymouth UK - March 2023
SWAc at Delamore Arts, Cornwood, UK - May 2023
21 Group of Artists, Limekiln Gallery, Calstock, UK - October 2023
South West Academy, Sidmouth, UK -November 2023
2024
Parcus Gallery, Aistersheim, Austria - February 2024
South West Academy at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, UK - March/April 2024
Parcus Gallery ARTMUC, Munich, Germany, April 2024
21 Group of Artists, Artmill Gallery Plymouth UK - April 2024
Plymouth Society of Artists, Artmill Gallery Plymouth UK -April 2024
SWAc at Delamore Arts, Cornwood, Devon, UK - May 2024
Parcus Gallery, Basel, Switzerland - June 2024
Museum of Art and Science, Milan, Italy, June/July 2024
Beyond Boarders, Artio Gallery, European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain - June 2024
Larroque International Arts Festival, France - July/August 2024
Parcus II Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Grieskirchen, Austria October/November 2024
Common Ground - Plymouth Society of Artists and St Ives Society of Artists, Norway Square, St Ives UK
2025
Plymouth Society of Artists - Artmill Gallery Plymouth, UK- January/February 2025
Luxembourg Contemporary Art Fair - The BOX LUXPO, Luxembourg - March 2025
Carousel De Louvre - Paris, France - April 2025
ARTMUC - Munich, Germany - May 2025
21 Group of Artists - Sou Sou West Gallery, Dorset UK- May 2025
Plymouth Society of Artists - Barnes - Graham Room, University of Plymouth, UK - August 2025
Awards
Arts Council of Great Britain Award for Painting 1982
Mail Marketing International First Prize (for most outstanding work in a water-based medium) RWA 2002
Elected Academician – South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts 2001
Lynn Painter Stainer Award shortlist 2005
South West Academy - Honorary Academician 2021
Artio (Barcelona and Toronto) - Global Horizons Award 2023
Parcus Academy 2025