Biography

Paul was born in London in Kensington and educated at Regent Street Polytechnic Grammar School. After school he took up a post as layout artist in an advertising agency in Charing Cross; at the same time taking up a part-time award at Saint Martin’s School of Art. He was elected a member of the Artists International Association and exhibited in their exhibitions. He then spent 3 years in Swindon as part of a group of artists that included Desmond Morris, Mervyn Levy and others. In 1947 he was accepted as a student at Bath Academy of Art at Corsham to train as an art teacher under Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, William Scott, Kenneth Armitage. Here he met Rosemary Williams and they married in 1951. He was appointed head of Art at Chiswick Grammar School and after four years took up a similar post at Dudley Grammar School where he remained until taking early retirement. During this time he exhibited at a number of galleries, primarily in Birmingham and the Black Country. He also did extensive lecturing in Art History at a great many venues in the West Midlands for Birmingham University Extra Mural Department and the W.E.A. Since then he has been painting and drawing full-time; exhibiting in Bath (where he now lives), Bristol, St Ives, Salisbury, Hereford, London and Germany.

Artist's Statement

After a largely figurative beginning, my work has gradually developed into a mixture of figurative and non-figurative directions and with a variety of media, size and surface. It is produced by instinct, deliberately devoid of ‘subject matter’, I need it to express feeling by purely visual means.