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Paul has won an award for his painting from the Wexford Arts Centre, sponsored by the Lions Club Wexford, as well as having his work very favourably reviewed by the Arts and Crafts Council of Ireland. Paul has worked with mixed media (Watercolour, ink and tempera) but more recently with oils. He likes the freedom of choosing any one or combinations of media.
His aim is to highlight the aesthetic value of ordinary everyday subjects and to encourage the viewer to see afresh-everyday subjects of their environment. Paul is a figurative expressionist painter with a distinctive style. Colour plays a very important role in his paintings, drawing the viewer into key areas of the painting.

Paul believes the artist should stimulate and challenge the viewer to look and look again and to gain a sense of feeling or reality when viewing art. It seems pointless to him to have a language visual or otherwise in which nobody can understand or which is so personal to the artist that it is beyond another interpretation. He feels Painting as a visual medium should be visual and not require catalogues of text in order to be appreciated. "The majority of people are relatively visually literate and if they trust their own instincts about what they are viewing they will find themselves quite capable of judging painting" he says. He feels that an artist must remain true to him/herself and not just follow the fleeting fashions in the visual arts in order to be in vogue, as this further isolates the viewer, which encourages pretentiousness, which is often associated with the arts. He welcomes the challenge of all subject matter that takes his interest, from portraits to landscape. Paul has had considerable success with his portraits. His portraits are renowned for they're striking likeness but with a distinctiveness and depth of their own, attempting to look beyond the superficial into the heart of the subject.

His latest series of paintings Called "awakening", attempt to again highlight the familiar, the places and things we see every day, to see with fresh eyes the beauty that's all around us and to awaken, refresh and enlighten us to the fact that everything we need to know is already all around us.

Awakening Spring6

2006
31x31

Awakening Spring7

2006
oil on canvas
31x31

awakening Spring 3

2006
oil on canvas
65x31

Awakening Spring 4

2006
oil on canvas
65x31

Awakening Autumn 5

2005
oil on canvas
65x31

Awakening Spring 2

2006
oil on canvas
65x31

Awakening Spring

2006
oil on canvas
126x61

Awakening Autumn

2005
oil on canvas
126x61