Paul Mckee

I am a freelance artist and curator. I was born in Liverpool, UK and grew up during a wonderful flowering of the local, national and international art scene. As an international port, my home town was always outward looking and there was music and art everywhere.
I currently live in Gloucester, in the beautiful South west of England and I teach painting on cruise ships, which takes me all over the world. At home, I paint in a wooden building at the bottom of the garden.
My work is inspired by my experiences and the things I love. I paint flowers and landscapes in a romantic style, which is expressive and informed by drawings photographs and memory. I see myself in the English tradition of Turner, Piper, Sutherland and Bomberg, a tradition which freely interprets the landscape and still life in a semi-abstract manner.
I work in oil, watercolour, charcoal and mixed media.

I trained at Liverpool School of Art and University College London. I have a BA hons Fine Art, Painting, a Post Graduate Certificate of Education and an MA in Museum Studies

I exhibit regularly with the Cheltenham Group of Artists. I have had a number of one person exhibitions, including Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, the Mill Art Centre, Banbury; Christchurch Picture Gallery, Oxford and the Corinium Museum, Cirencester, UK
I have taken part in group exhibitions in various venues since 1974.