Artists Statement
The Cornish artist and author Robert Jones was born in Newquay, Cornwall. The beaches and cliffs were his childhood playground. He studied at Falmouth College of Art where he was taught by Robert Organ and Francis Hewlett. He continued to paint whilst teaching in various schools including A.S. Neill’s Summerhill School for three years, and for seven further years fishing around the Cornish coast. A period as part time tutor at Penzance and Falmouth Colleges of art, followed by a successful exhibition at Newlyn Orion Art Gallery encouraged him to concentrate on his painting. He was able to reduce his teaching committments and then to paint full time. He is a prolific artist who has exhibited widely, including the National Maritime Museum Cornwall.
Education
Falmouth Art School and Manchester college of Art (post graduate studies).
Teaching qualifications at Brighton and Bristol.
Taught at Summerhill School, Suffolk; Mullion School, Cornwall; and Falmouth College of Art.
Exhibitions
2011 National Maritime Museum Falmouth
2007 Gave lecture at Wallis Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum / Thomas Henry Fine Art, Nantucket, U.S.A. / ‘Reuben Chappell, Pierhead Painter’ commended by Cornish Gorsedd.
2006 Surrey University, Exhibition of Paintings (met HRH duke of Kent) and gave annual Art Lecture / Penwith Gallery, St Ives / Solo show, Tring.
2005 Royal Cornwall Museum, retrospective (‘From Light to Dark’) / Beside The Wave, Falmouth / High Street Gallery, Dartmouth / Great Atlantic Mapworks, Falmouth / Out of the Blue, Bath.
2004 Sarah Samuels Art in Business (M.B.N.A. bank permanent collection) / John Davies Gallery, Stow on the Wold.
2003 Beside The Wave, Falmouth / Lighthouse Gallery, Penzance / Penwith Gallery, St Ives / Black Swan Arts Centre, Frome.
2002 David Messum, Cork St (Painters & Sculptors of the South West) / John Davies Gallery, Stow on the Wold / Great Atlantic Mapworks.
2000 John Davies Gallery, Stow on the Wold.
1999 Great Atlantic Mapworks, St Just (‘Islands and Travels’) / Penwith Gallery, St Ives (‘Travelling Light’).
1998 Gallery 27, Cork Street, London.
1997 Penwith Gallery, St Ives (‘One Hundred Paintings’) /
Gallery 27, Cork Street, London (‘The Sea’).
1995 Tate Gallery, St Ives (‘Porthmeor Beach, A Century of Images’).
1994/5 Beaux Arts, Bath / Falmouth Art Gallery / Touring exhibition (‘When I Put out to Sea’) Penwith gallery, St Ives and Burton Art Gallery, Bideford.
1993 Oxford Gallery, Oxford / Rainy Day Gallery, Penzance.
1991 Falmouth Art Gallery.
1989 Beside The Wave, Falmouth / A Century of Art in Cornwall, Truro.
1988 Wolf at the Door, Penzance / Newlyn Art Gallery.
1986 Brewhouse Arts Centre, Taunton / Browse & Darby, London.
1985 Underground Gallery, Bath.
1982 British Drawing Exhibition, Hayward Gallery London.
