Incorporating animal human hybrid creatures and surreal figurative apparitions, these oil on canvas works, symbolise Pauls interest in a wide range of Western and non-Western mystical and esoteric traditions.

This ongoing series started in the autumn of 2020, investigates magical and animistic faiths and how they are connected to nature, including the relationship between the human, plant and animal worlds.

Using a traditional painting method of underpainting and glazing, the compositions give a modern twist to what appear to be, on first inspection, dark fairy tales.

Exiles In Eden

An ongoing portfolio of pencil drawings exploring the interlinking relationship between natural landscapes and human forms and animals. 

In many cultures the power of nature has been symbolically represented and in this series Paul has used the female form and animal archetypes to convey this link with complex designs of woods and trees. 

A series of 'mystical' handheld orb drawings continues this technique, containing emerging embryonic figures.

Pencil Drawings

The First Nine Planets
The first six paintings in the “Aether Worlds" series evolved into another collection, this time derived from photos of the paintings themselves.

Aether Worlds - The Planets

This new series of abstract landscape oil paintings, started in the summer of 2020 continues the ethereal and otherworldly abstract landscapes created by Paul in both the 'Aether Worlds' and 'Supernature' paintings. 

Combining the use of palette knives and brushes with strong colour combinations they take the viewer on a journey through swirling mists, organic forms and iridescent skies. 

The World Beyond

Using old master painting techniques, "The Mechanical Paradise" is a series of oil paintings that symbolically combine the ancient automatons of greek mythology with the introduction of AI into contemporary life. 

These works use "Old master" painting methods that require an underpainting on top of which are placed coloured glazes in oil. A mix of raw umber, transparent oxide red and titanium white is used for the under painting and then various transparent and semi transparent oil colours, mixed with a medium to create the coloured glazes. 

These works are filled with symbolism which reference the increasing use of technology into every aspect of contemporary life.

The Mechanical Paradise

“In Greek mythology, Aether is one of the primordial deities. Aether is the personification of the “upper sky embodying the pure upper air that the gods breathe, as opposed to the normal air breathed by mortals.” 
from wikipedia

This series of abstract landscape oil paintings, started in the winter of 2019 / 2020 and expands on similar themes developed in the “Supernature” series of abstract landscape paintings, using palette knives instead of brushes to create effects with the oil paint itself.

This creates a flatter, less textural finish to the works, than in the “Supernature” series, while retaining a sense of depth, movement and light...

In using this theme as a basis for the works, I am creating a journey from the first dawn symbolised in “Lightbringer: through various stages of ethereal landscapes.

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