Comments on: Cyril Mann, Painter

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 07:38:19 +0000

“I believe he is the most significant London painter of the nineteen-forties, post-war.” Difficult to argue with that …..

By: Graham White

Graham White — Sat, 17 Jun 2017 13:49:02 +0000

Simply stunning visual impacts making the ordinary extraordinary

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 17 Jun 2017 10:42:36 +0000

Wonderful pictures. Cyril’s forehead looks like one of his skies!

By: Renske Mann

Renske Mann — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 14:12:04 +0000

Thank you for your lovely remarks about Cyril’s paintings. As his widow, I hope you feel ‘the pain’ as well as the beauty in his vision. Will his art form – smallish pictures that require contemplation – survive in centuries to come, or is it destined for oblivion? Reading your remarks, Cyril would have been very happy.
I can’t wait to see the gentle author’s book and thank the author, too, for being our voice in the wilderness

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 10:24:30 +0000

This blog is a daily visit to “The Lost and Found Department of Wonderfulness”.
So many new-to-me discoveries, stories, revelations, and insights.
And glowing optimism, on a daily basis.
This work, by Cyril Mann, is thrilling. The intensity of the final image (self portrait)
hit me like a bolt of lightning. Cyril abides!
Many thanks.

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 10:21:59 +0000

Greetings from Boston,

GA, wonderful paintings of London post-war – depressing but always with light and church steeples to suggest hope in my view.

His “Cyril in his crowded flat in Paul St, c 1950” shows his talent with depicting interiors, various angles, and great still life rendering of the blossoms. Love the last self portrait too.

Thanks so much …

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:31:20 +0000

I love his atmospheric paintings, they take me back to the London of my childhood, which has all but disappeared. Valerie

By: John Barrett

John Barrett — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 07:29:52 +0000

Cyril Mann is a artist brought back to life again by GA. He was a army gunner, printer & teacher. Judging by his work shown Cyril became a main stream artist I liked his broad brush attack work & sometimes futuristic approach. To obtain full cred in the art world there has to be a grim determination to succeed he did. There are so many good things to say about Cyril. Nice study pic – shows him preparing for his exhibition in 1948 69 years ago. He is wearing a natty pinstripe suit with a big trouser turn up, defiantly a suave man about London town ? did he own the trilby hat & walking cane showing in pic – he could have. Poet John PS – if any family members view this be proud of him. Any pic residue left sell-off cheaply rather than keep them lock up in a dark room, in that way they could loved by people – just a suggestion

By: Gary Horton

Gary Horton — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 07:19:24 +0000

I’m very impressed by the these amazingly evocative paintings. The artist has created the true atmosphere of a London long gone now. I’m reminded of impressionistic style as I experience these wonderful artworks. Thanks for publishing these here.

By: Bailey Jones

Bailey Jones — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 05:23:20 +0000

Wow! These are quite amazing: the broken down world suffused with light. Such a clear vision. There is a really spiritual quality evident even looking at these little images on my phone. It all shines through.

More than a painter: an artist.