Paul paints mostly from memory – the scent of a flower, a landscape absorbed while walking or a plant that catches his eye in passing through the garden.

Recently in the corner of field he heard a skylark, it’s high frequency song demanded his attention.   It made an impression that is hard to explain – He may not actually paint that skylark, but there is a good chance that the memory of that encounter will appear in a painting in the form of a brush stroke, a mark made in graphite or a scratch of the pallet knife – it is this distilling of things that fill my paintings.