Paul Mount

Paul Mount (1922-2009) was an artist, architectural designer, sculptor, writer and musician. He studied at Paignton School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. During World War 2, as a pacifist, he served with the ambulance services in North Africa, Paris and Strasbourg, before returning to the Royal College, where he focussed on portraits and urban landscape.

Mount taught at the Winchester School of Art before moving to Nigeria, where he learned about carving and sculpture, and set up an art department at the College of Technology in Lagos. His abstract works are inspired by music and architecture, but also drew on the tribal sculptures around where he worked. Sculpture became the focus of his output and he exhibited alongside other artists such as Hepworth, Heron and Hilton. Mount later moved to Cornwall where the landscape around him gave fresh creativity to his work. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, the London Group, and the Royal Portrait Society and in several European countries. 

His public sculptures include the ‘Spirit of Bristol’, Bristol; the British Steel Corporation, London; the Cabinet Offices, Accra, Ghana and Chase Manhattan Bank in Lagos, Nigeria. He has exhibited widely in the UK as well as in Spain, Germany, Switzerland and the U.S.A. and his work is in many public and private collections.