Artist in watercolour, oil and pencil, born in Wokingham, Berkshire. He served a five-year apprenticeship as a lithographic artist and designer in Reading, but was essentially a self-taught painter, specialising in meticulous trompe l’oeil pictures and portraits. Mundy spent most of his National Service drawing maps for jungle forces in the Malayan Emergency. From 1960 he held senior positions with advertising agencies in the Far East, retiring to England to paint full-time in 1978. He was a member of RMS, winning its Gold Memorial Bowl in 1986; Miniature Artists of America; Hilliard Society; and a fellow of Chartered Society of Designers. Showed at RA Summer Exhibitions from 1977, RP, Paris Salon where he won a Silver medal in 1982, and in 1991 had a solo show, under royal patronage, at Oriental Hotel, Bangkok.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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