CW Mundy grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, won a college basketball scholarship, and graduated from Ball State University in Muncie. In the early 1980s, he became the official illustrator for Bob Knight, legendary basketball coach at Indiana University. He also had contracts for illustration with the Pro Golfers Association, the United States Golf Association, and the National Basketball Association. From those years, his artwork is in many collections including the Indianapolis 500 Museum.

In 1994, workshops taught by established artists such as Scott Christensen and Dan Gerhartz freed his creativity, especially for plein-air painting. Since that time he and wife Rebecca have traveled extensively including to East Coast locations such as Gloucester and Rockport as well as France and throughout Europe.

Among the artists Mundy credits as inspiring to him are John Singer Sargent, Edgar Payne and Guy Rose.