When in 1992 Mason shared a show with three other artists at the Mistral Galleries, John N Hutchinson alluded to diverse events that had prompted works by this “unusual painter. His work is inspired by memories of his past life that to most of us would seem an intolerable burden. In the space of three years, his sister, brother, mother and father died from incurable diseases. Orphaned, he turned to painting as a form of relief from his great loss.” When, in 1989, Mason was commissioned by Stanhope Properties to paint the last phases of the Broadgate project in the City of London, he spent “time amongst the construction workers, working with them on the night shift and throughout the site”. Mason had many solo shows in Britain and abroad, later ones including A Line from East to West, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1998, where he showed fiery, gestural canvases. He had work in a lot of public and corporate collections, including Arts Council, Bank of England Museum, British Council, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Yale Center for British Art, both in America.