Paul was born in 1967 and raised in North Carolina. At the age of ten he received classical drawing lessons from painter D. Jeffrey Mims
with whom he would return to during university studies for an extensive
apprenticeship on several large mural projects that lasted two years.
In 1988 he journeyed to Florence, Italy for 2 years training at Studio
Cecil-Graves under the tutelage of Charles Cecil and Daniel Graves.
Continuing his education he went to England where he studied in museums
and travelled around Europe returning to Italy six months later to help
Daniel Graves open the Florence Academy of Art
After painting and teaching at the academy for two years he returned to
North Carolina in 1992. There he set up a studio where he continued to
paint as well as teach a select number of students. That summer he
assisted D. Jeffrey Mims in
teaching a workshop on plein air figure and portrait painting. He had a
series of one-man shows in North Carolina and Hollis Taggart Galleries
in Washington D.C.
He has exhibited with teachers and peers in Florence Academy Alumni
exhibitions in London, England, The Italian Institute in San Francisco,
California and the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, Florida as well as
in numerous solo and group shows in the US and Europe.
In London he has exhibited in the BP Portrait Award
in the National Portrait Gallery, with the Royal Society of Portrait
Painters at the Mall Galleries and had an exhibition of figure drawings
at the Groucho Club in Soho.
In 2003 Paul took part in “Realism Revisited”, an exhibition of former teachers at the Florence Academy of Art that was held at the Panorama Museum in Bad Frankenhausen, Germany, Hirschl and Adler Galleries in New York City and Century Gallery in Washington DC. He has had three one man exhibitions in 2005, 2007 and 2010 at WH Patterson Gallery
where he has been represented in London since 1995. Paul’s pictures
hang in public and private collections throughout the world.
