Paul William

By day I’m a construction project manager and spend hours working on building projects in the Boston area. Through this process I get to know a building intimately working on it every day for months (or years) at a time. But even more influential is living and working in Boston which enables me to see the city over time, in all seasons, weather, and times of day. If a motif catches my eye I often go back to places numerous times to see various conditions that will allow me to capture the feeling that I would like to communicate.

Art, architecture, and building have always been a part of who I am. These paintings in this portfolio are studio works that came about after a period of time spent painting en plein air. I like to consider myself a direct observational painter (like my painting heroes George Nick and Christopher Chippendale), but in the winter of 2018 I fell and fractured my knee cap, limiting me to the studio rather than painting outdoors. I spent this time painting larger works over the course of days and weeks rather than a spurt of an hour or two en plein air. I was not happy about being stuck indoors at the time but the silver lining was that the work in the studio began to develop, the series grew and a...

2019 - The Built City (solo show), Gallery Seven, Maynard MA (Feb/Mar)
2018 - Plein Air Salon (juried), Plein Air Magazine (Dec/Jan)
2017 - Plein Air Salon (juried), Plein Air Magazine (Oct/Nov)
2017 - Plein Air Salon (juried), Plein Air Magazine (Aug/Sep)
2017 – Group Exhibition (juried), Gallery Seven, Maynard, MA
2017 – Group Exhibition, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2017 – Group Exhibition (juried), Gallery Seven, Maynard, MA
2016 – Group exhibition (juried), Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 - Group exhibition, Lululemon Athletica, Boston, MA
2016 - Solo exhibition, The Watchmaker, Stoneham, MA
2016 - Group exhibition, Gallery Seven, Maynard, MA
2016 - Group exhibition, University Place, Cambridge, MA
2015 - Group exhibition, University Place, Cambridge, MA
2014 - Solo exhibition, iYo Cafe, Somerville, MA
2013 - Group exhibition, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA