Born in Sheffield, Charles Mozley attended Sheffield School of Art, and in 1931, winning a national scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art. During the Second World War he joined the army, rising to Lieutenant Colonel in military intelligence, and working with the artist Edwin La Dell. Alongside John Piper, he was commissioned by Shell and London Transport to design their advertisement posters and also worked for Alexander Korda Films. In 1951, Charles Mozley was asked to paint a large mural, Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, for the Festival of Britain. Throughout the 1950's he worked as a book cover designer and illustrator, producing in the region of eighty titles, and by 1960 he was hugely successful, accepting commissions from both sides of the Atlantic. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and was a member of the Chelsea Art Club. In The Panthéon Across the Seine - Paris, the architecture of the city dissolves into a swirling atmosphere of sensation. Charles Mozley explores the immediacy of plein air painting, viewing Paris through a vapour of light, mist and colour.
The artist's daughter, Juliet Mozley