About
Studio: 2N2 Phoenix Arts Association, Waterloo Place, Brighton BN2 9NB
Mobile: 078 12 21 41 36
Fax: 01273 603704
mail@cyrilmount.net
Born Liverpool 1920. Attended Liverpool Junior School of Art 1934-35. Joined Royal Horse Artillery 1935. Posted to India in 1936. Regiment left India early 1941. Active service in Middle East and North African Campaigns including invasion of Sicily in 1943. Commissioned Lieutenant and returned to UK March 1944. Further active service in France Holland and Germany 1944-46. Left army as Captain in 1946.
Forty one drawings and gouaches from 1941-46 in permanent collection of Imperial War Museum. Full time student at Liverpool School of Art 1946-50. National Diploma in Design 1950. Diploma in Fine Art 1951.
Art Master in Public School 1951-54. Full-Time lecturer in Fine Art in Higher Education 1954-78. Elected FRSA 1963. Painted and exhibited regularly. Received grant from Eastern Arts 1974 Commissioned to paint ceiling panel and large Crucifixion for St Peters Italianchurch Clerkenwell. Installed 1975. Took early retirement in 1978 to travel and paint full time. Returned to India 1978. Moved to Cambridge1980. Invited to occupy large studio by Magdalene College1981. Painted, ran courses in painting and life drawing. Part time teaching for Open University.
Moved to Sussex 1986. Spent much time in Europe and N.Africa painting and exhibiting. Revisited Egypt 1991 in connection with commission to make painting for the 50th anniversary of the first battle of El Alamein (July 1942), installed and now on permanent exhibition in the Imperial War Museum July 1992. Occupied studio at the Phoenix Arts Association since 1997.
Fourteen Solo exhibitions to date. The most recent being a major show of 58 paintings in Municipal Museum and Art Gallery in Worthing, Sussex 1998. Innumerable mixed group exhibitions including John Moores, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool Academy (member), Irish Living Art, Manchester Academy of Art, Royal Academy. Recent profile (July 2001) in Artist & Illustrators magazine by Laura Gascoigne.
Works in collections in Japan, US, Australia, France, Germany, Portugal and UK.
"It is clear that Mounts recent work has lost none of its fire and anarchy. This is a late flowering of skill and sensibility a combination of the energy of youth and the insight of experience. He joins the ranks of those painters who have surprised their younger colleagues by getting a second wind of creative energy instead of as so often is the case descending into senility and repetition."
Gordon Millar MA, PhD, Art Historian. (1998 Catalogue note)
Date modified 11th September 2008