Paul Levy

My pictures are often intensely coloured and use more-or-less recogniseable images – geometric forms, portraits, landscapes, interiors, still life, imagery from popular and high culture - but rendered and juxtaposed in such a way as to defamiliarize the subjects. They are part of a long series of reflections on the nature of picture-making. These are interconnected works and in them I try to take account of the history of meaning and form in visual art and my purpose is to see how these can be reimagined using contemporary processes in an art world now without movements or consensus. I am particularly concerned with how visual representation can highlight mythology and social change. In the last two years I have been moving towards printmaking and working with combinations of analogue and digital methods. I have begun to incorporate painting and photography, particularly photomontage into my pictures and to work with digital printers to create works on paper. What I used to think of as a painting I now see as a temporary halt in a process.

I came to visual art via a Masters degree in verbal communication from the University of Westminster. My art training began with three years of the Artslab programme at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, followed by Diploma and Post Graduate study at the Anteros Arts Foundation and Artpocket, both in the city of Norwich. I am a studio holder at Outpost Studios. I am a member of Outpost and of the Artpocket Community.

Recent solo and duo shows
‘The beauty of rust’ A exhibition of my paintings, prints and mixed media work in collaboration with the poetry of Bill Albert and Joy McCall
Anteros Arts Foundation
16 – 28 September 2019

‘Pas de deux’
An exhibition of drawings and paintings with Laure Van Minden, commissioned by the Norfolk and Norwich Sonic Arts Collective (since renamed Eastern Ear).
Old Shoe Factory, St Marys Works, Norwich
7-8 December 2019

‘Memory/vision’
A solo show of paintings and prints
Anteros Arts Foundation
7-15 Fye Bridge St Norwich NR3 1LJ
11 – 22 February 2020

‘On Jones Beach Pt 2: The Celebrants’
An installation of sculpture, drawings, postcards and prints from the ‘on Jones Beach’ series.
Outpost Studios exhibition space
Gildengate House, Norwich
March – May 2021

Sacred Mountains
An exhibition of pictures from the Sacred Mountains series.
Britons Arms
Elm Hill, Norwich
11 March 2022 – present

On Jones Beach
An installation of sculpture and prints from the ‘on Jones Beach’ series for
OutThere Arts ‘Hi Culture’ art windows programme.
Drill House, Great Yarmouth
April 2022 – present

You will not silence me. You will not shut my mouth.
New paintings and prints
Anteros Arts Foundation
7-15 Fye Bridge St Norwich NR3 ...