Mike Jory

Mike Jory is an artist living and working in Exeter. His interests include animal, portrait and figure paintings, landscape, still life, murals, graphic/product design and cartoons. His work has appeared in the National Gallery, Westminster Gallery and Llewellyn Alexander Gallery in London, and he has held several one man shows in Devon.

Recently he painted portraits of the actresses Amanda Barrie and Rula Lenska for ITV1's "A Brush With Fame" and created two large-scale murals for the Devon Wildlife Trust. His work is in private collections throughout the UK, Europe and the USA.

Selected Projects:

2003 ‘An Exhibition of Portraits’ (one man show) The Picture House, Exeter
2004 External Mural (approx: 100 feet by 10 feet) for The Bovey Heathfield Visitor Centre, painted on commission for the Devon Wildlife Trust.
2005 SAA Exhibition, Westminster Gallery, London
2005 ‘Not The Royal Academy’, Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, London.
2005 Second Place in the regional final of ITV1’s “A Brush With Fame”.
2006 ‘An Exhibition of Paintings’ (one man show) Exeter Central Library
2007 ‘Five Days of Fine Art’ (one man show) Exeter Central Library
2007 Wildlife Garden Traveling Mural painted on commission for the Devon Wildlife Trust.
2009 ‘On To Pastures New’ (one man show) Exeter University 23 April – 15 May 2009.
2009 'Fleeting Moments' An Exhibition of Figure Paintings (one man show) Exeter Central Library
2009 'Cows in Castle Cary' (one man show) The Trowbridge Gallery, Castle Cary, Somerset
2010 'Fun!' An Exhibition of Illustrations (one man show) Exeter Central Library
2010 The Royal Bath and West Show, Shepton Mallet, Somerset
2010 'Are You Looking At Me?' (one man show) The Picture House, Exeter
2010 'Animal Instincts' (one man show) The Trowbridge Gallery, Castle Cary, Somerset