About Paul
Paul has been making art for over 25 years, mostly on a very part time basis. He has always drawn inspiration from the landscape where he lives and from his travels abroad and to remote areas in Australia. In recent years he moved to Dangar Island permanently, where he now plays and creates with art almost every day in a beautiful purpose-built studio overlooking the Hawkesbury. Much of his art comes from the many hours he spends in his tree house studio.
Paul regularly goes into the bush alone and with other artists. He loves the plein air works that emerge from this direct engagement with nature, their powerful immediacy… so much happening, they create themselves in a way.
As a meditator for nearly 40 years, Paul suspects that it is his meditation that has helped him connect with his creative juices. Living with so much natural beauty and meditating daily is a great recipe, he feels, for making art.
As well as painting landscapes, Paul also loves to paint patterns and much of the inspiration for this comes from his having spent time with the Aboriginal elder Miriam Rose Ungumner and her community who not only produce beautiful pattern work but combine their art making with the ancient practice of DADIRRI which is all about being still and aware of the sounds and sights that nature constantly gifts to us. Doing these patterns after practicing DADIRRI is a type of contemplative prayer for him. All sense of time disappears as he gently immerses himself in this way of prayerful art making.
Paul is currently exploring where landscape and pattern meet.