TEIGNMOUTH Art Society has announced that a distinguished Devon Artist is to be its guest of honour and judge at its annual Summer Exhibition.
Robert Mountjoywill be at the Victoria Hall in Shaldon for the exhibition which starts Thursday and runs until the Bank Holiday Monday, August 29.
Robert is an academician and trustee of the South West Academy of Art and has exhibited widely.
He paints in watercolour on stretched paper prepared with gesso (a kind of plaster more often used to prepare canvases for oil painting).
His still life paintings of fruit are so closely observed and so lifelike you feel you could bite into them and get covered in juice. Each one takes ages to paint, understandably. The photograph left shows Robert at the Royal West of England Academy with his painting of dark red crab apples in a bowl.
Robert also paints portraits and has an exhibition currently running in Tavistock.
Pictures of people is one of the categories he will be asked to judge at the Victoria Hall.
He will also be considering marine art, abstracts and flower paintings.
Asked if he was he looking for anything in particular Robert replied: ‘No, but I will be looking for originality and innovation with a range of mediums. I am looking for’
Entry to Teignmouth Art Society exhibitions is free, and the Victoria Hall will be open from 10am until 5pm.