Paul Roy

Born Dublin, Ireland 1967.I am a visual artist, musician and writer. I paint what I feel is tangible, from sources based within the world around me. Examining the emotional states and responses of subject and viewer. As with my painting, so I also desire to elicit emotions from the listener when I create music. In this my work often overlaps, drawing from similar and/or related sources, and I feel that they are two threads of the same body of work, ultimately interwoven.Primarily I paint in acrylics for their immediacy, their quick drying properties and ease of use, I do not examine or consider the process of creating art, I am solely interested in the resulting work and its impact.With my music, I create it without rigourous reference to the constraints of musical form, using all imstrumentation, voice and found sound as a means to an overall piece rather than a strict musical form, rather an evocation of of the emotional core of the subject.As I expand my body of work I intend to exhibit and perform as regularily as possible, generally with the music and visual artworks in harmony.