PAUL CHISHOLM

I create because I have to, too survive it is something within in me which makes me analyze the world and then formalize it in a variety of media. Creation is what makes me tick its what makes me get out of bed in a morning! My work covers a variety of issues and subject matters through various media, forever evolving forever maturing.

Through landscape paintings, collected detritus, abstracts, paintings of the male form and photography my art works asks us to contemplate mans relationship with nature- both renewal and destruction; life’s cycles.

All of my work comes down to the basics of life; birth sex and death, a questioning of the world and its mechanics. My work seeks to reveal the beauty and intimacy of human existence when everything else can at times can feel brutal and overwhelming. My creations allow time for contemplation and reflection a space to breath.

My work with dust; the collecting of samples from historic places is a documentation of our history a captured moment in the evolution of man.

 My current series of abstract watercolors, which are titled with media headlines from the day of the pictures creation, look to formulate a debate between abstraction and information from real events and ones own vision of the world.

Beneath all of the artists work there is a feeling that life itself is far from idyllic; ironically we are destroying our planet and each other in pursuit of a perceived perfect life.

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