Career
He trained at the Birmingham School of Arts and Crafts under William Bloye, the Royal College of Art (for one term), and Slade School of Artist He lived and worked in Paris beginning in 1946. He is known for his sculptures of tightly packed people made from clay, with works on McGill College Avenue in Montreal.
The Tuileries, Paris.
Georgetown, Washington, District of Columbia And Madison Avenue, New New York
His controversial 1991 work, Forward! in Birmingham"s Centenary Square was destroyed by arson on 17 April 2003. The statue carried a reference to deoxyribonucleic acid ("the secret of life") in connection with Maurice Wilkins, who went to school in Birmingham and worked at the University of Birmingham. He was the subject of an episode of the British Broadcasting Corporation television series "Omnibus", The Return of Raymond Mason, broadcast on 28 November 1982, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for services to sculpture and to Anglo-French relations in the 2002 New Year Honours.
Raymond Mason died 13 February 2010.