Paul was born in Devon and studied at the Royal College of Art and subsequently taught at the Winchester School of Art. Mount felt his career as a sculptor began when teaching in West Africa where he was inspired by the indigenous art.  Working mainly in bronze, cast-iron and stainles steel, he exploited 'reflective surfaces to extend the sculpture ambiguously within intself', often making pieces in a number of units that fitted together in interchangeable, movable fashion.  He also designed large scale architectural sculpture in concrete and fibre-glass in Africa and elsewhere. 

Together with his second wife, June MILES, they worked from Nancherrow Studio, St Just-in-Penwith, and also annually in France. 'The first impression that his work makes is one of energy - specifically of the energy that defines itself as form. If sculpture of this order could remind us of any other art, it would be of music rather than painting.' [Ronald GASKELL, 1981]