In 2025, there is nothing more important in painting than standing in our landscape with strength and honesty. I walk through young forests choked with invasive plants that were fields just eighty years ago. I climb over the rims of colonial quarries. This wilderness is a changing array of scars from previous afflictions. It is familiar to us as we explain ourselves through houses and roads and shows and events. It is everything else—our negative space. Mystery is worth describing. There is Awe.
An announcement with a profound feeling of honor: In 2024, The Michener Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania acquired for it's permanent collection, Epochal Violence 9: Querencia/Altar. The painting is currently on display in their newly-refreshed Modern/Contemporary Gallery.
Sean Mount received a 2019 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
A Solebury, PA native, Sean attended George School in Newtown, Pennsylvania and then Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. After having earned degrees in Biology and Literature, and after a career as a decorative painter and muralist, Sean spent a decade in New York City working in film and television as a Scenic Artist (see imdb.com).
There, he won three Art Director’s Guild Awards for his work on MR. ROBOT and The Night Of.
A self-taught oil and watercolor painter, Sean is a naturalist who has been foraging for mushrooms in particular all his life. Ornithology is of specific interest to him too. Known for his paintings of foggy winter woods and sun-dappled creeks, his work is recognized as fortifying the rich legacy of New Hope School Impressionism with honesty and innovative unsentimentality.
Sean lives in Lambertville, NJ with his wife Allison Richard and their daughter.