Biography

GERALD MYNOTT was born in London in 1957 and educated at Reigate College of Art and Design, where he studied heraldry, calligraphy and illumination, graduating with the highest marks ever recorded at the College. After working for three years as a Herald Painter at the Royal College of Arms, he studied at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna in 1979, returning for his first one-person exhibition with Francis Kyle Gallery, A View of Vienna, in 1980.

For some years Gerald Mynott worked in mixed media, but since 1990 he has been painting mostly in oil on canvas, recording his long-established interest in the architecture, formal parks and gardens of the great cities of Europe, from antiquity to the Secession Movement as well as occasional still lifes, interiors and flower pieces. In 1997 he made working visits to Thailand and Indonesia. Since 1980 he has held nine one-man exhibitions: Fragments of a Grand Tour (1981), Doves and Dominoes: Houses, gardens and festivities from Faringdon to the Venice Carnival (1983), Cupolas and Capricios: a pursuit of the rococo from Brighton Pavilion to the Dresden Zwinger (1985), In New York (1987), In Morocco (1992), Cities of Europe (1995), From Vienna to Bali (1999) and Kyoto to Cracow (2003).

Since 1986 Mynott has participated in a number of theme exhibitions at the Francis Kyle Gallery, including The Lost Domain: A Quest for Alain-Fournier and the World of the Le Grand Meaulnes in 1986, Venezia Ancora (shown at the Arts Club in 1987), Circus! Circus! (shown at the Theatre Museum, Covent Garden in 1988/89) and Everyone Sang: A view of Siegfried Sassoon and his World by twenty-five painters today (2006). He has twice exhibited in New York (1984 and 1991) and in Hong Kong in 1992. In 2001 he was selected by Sir Roy Strong as a featured artist in The Discerning Eye exhibition.

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