Paul Arts

Paul Arts is a Dutch born contemporary artist based in Spain since 1989.
His expressionistic portraits explore silence, memory and emotional tension through the human face. Combining classical references with loose brushwork, muted colours and textured surfaces, he creates figures that feel both fragile and powerful.

Arts works extensively with natural and mineral materials, including chalk paint, pigments, egg yolk, lime, iron oxide and copper oxide. These materials give his paintings a tactile, time-worn quality and connect the human figure to earth, surface and transformation.

The studio of Arts is located in the food forest he created himself in the mountains of Andalusia. (backtolatierra dot com)

His work is less concerned with perfect likeness than with the inner presence beneath the surface.

Paul is a self taught painter.

EXPOSITIONS Paul Arts
2017 Group Exposition Noordkade Veghel, NL
Solo Exposition Book Store BEK, NL

2018 Duo Exposition De Schets, Veghel, NL
Group Exposition Art Walk Competa, Spain

2019 Solo Exposition Restaurant La Cascada Marbella, Spain Group Exposition Harbour Sotogrande, Spain
Group Exposition Hotel Kempinski Estepona, Spain
Group Exposition Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, NL (as price winner in the Rembrandt competition)

2020 Group Exposition Town Hall Las Lagunas, Mijas, Spain Solo Exposition Restaurant Alboka, Mijas, Spain
Solo Exposition Restaurant Vino Mio, Malaga, Spain

2021 Group Exposition Hotel Kempinski, Estepona, Spain Group Exposition Festiarte Marbella, Spain

2022 Solo Exposition Galerie Gaudium Amsterdam
Group Exposition in Arvivid, Madrid, Spain
Group Exposition Brabant Art Fair Tilburg NL

2023 Solo Exposition Piano Services Bart Boogaard Amsterdam Group Exposition Nika Gallery Malaga, Spain.
Duo Exposition Gallery Lieske Brouwer, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

2024 Duo Exposition Gallery 22, Damme (Bruges), Belgium Festiarte, Group Exposition Marbella, Spain

2026 Solo Exposition in Cortijo Miraflores Marbella, Spain