Paul Thwaites

Current / Recent Shows:

'FACE' - Gallery Different, 14 Percy St, Fitzrovia, London W1 27 Sep - 2 Nov, 2013

STRARTA - The Saatchi Gallery, Kings Rd, Chelsea, SW3 10 - 13 Oct, 2013

View for images of both.
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Paul splits his time between painting and design consultancy on brand creation projects. Each informs the other.

Paul has developed his own painting style - consciously not referencing other artists - and although his work arguably makes a superficial nod towards Lichtenstein this is entirely co-incidental. In fact, his heroes are Basquiat, Schnabel and Katherine Bernhardt - the New York school one could say. Indeed it was seeing Bernhardt's large canvasses of wet-on-wet, drippy painted, fashion models with attitude that inspired him to take up the brush. In fact he would say that if he has been influenced at all then the scale of Schnabel and the viscerality of Basquiat and Bernhardt are his main references.

Living and working from a large, airy loft space in Royal Leamington Spa about an hour by train from Central London Paul splits his time between the studio, meeting and greeting in the capital and... (lots of) cafes. With The Cotswolds on his doorstep, not to mention Warwick, Stratford upon Avon and...