Paul Cummings

1972 Born Bournemouth Dorset1995 Shelley Park College of Art1999 Cheltenham University2009 Studio LeytonstoneCurrently live and work in London with painting studio in Leytonstone.Using particular sources such as photography and images scoured from the internet including 3d objects has allowed Paul Cummings to construct a fallacious realism by using advanced digital processes. The final images are then translated as a perfect facsimile into paintings. His work vacillates between reality and its virtual origins undecidedly never settling for one or the other. This fetishistic flattening of surface suppresses a neurotic anthropological undercurrent that is present within his works. His observations make a subtle pun on societal values but he also sublimates the banal in a precise rarified manner. His work and influences are a derivative of photo-realism and its concurrent movement hyper-realism.

Cheltenham University in 1999 with a BA Honours degree and since has been painting, printing and working within the digital media producing a variety of work and also working in the commercial environment. He is currently an art director within various advertising agencies in London but is now embarking on a painting career. Paul is a highly skilled multimedia designer and artist working within the digital image and also a practicing painter and printer. With a expert knowledge production processes Paul has produced compelling imagery and animations based on the zeitgeist of contemporary culture choosing subject matter that is sometimes slightly unnerving. With paintings it has always been a social critic on architecture observing the irony of the class system societal structures that are imposed on the individuals and communities. Paul's style always seems to resonate hyper-realism that has the evocative value of digital art particularly in a vector based mode. SkillsArt Direction, Visual Communication, Digital Illustration, Multimedia, Web interface design, 2D and 3D vector Animation, Multi-bandwidth publishing, Story Boarding, Video editing, Audio creation and engineering. Acrylic based fine art painting. Fine art critical theor...

Mar 14
The Stone Space, Visceral Virtual, Solo Show. Painting and Sculpture works.

July 13
Leytonstone Arts Trial, When The Walls Come Down Group show.

July 12
Leytonstone Arts Trial, When The Walls Come Down Group show, Paintings, drawing, photography July 12th – Juy 19th

Dec 11
Once Upon A Time, Radcliffe and Newlands, Shoreditch Group show, Paintings and drawing Dec 7th – Feb 18th

Sep 11
Wathamstow Arts Trail Group show selection of prints Sep 1st – Sep 7th

Sep 11
Exposure Gallery, Fitzrovia Solo Exhibition of selected charcoal portraits Sep 1st – Sep 30th

May 11
Mostyn Open Llandudno Group Exhibition of selected artists, national competition May 21st – July 9th

Jan 11
LBI international Wealth and the domicile Solo Exhibition of selected large works Jan 11th – Apr 28th

Nov 10
‘Unfrastructure’, Participatory Photography Project Photo Fringe Exhibition, Curated by Julia Horbaschk Nov 5th – Nov 11th

Sep 10
The Threadneedle Prize I was one of seven artists to be short-listed for the Threadneedle prize for the best representational painting currently in the UK today. Only in its third year it is progressively becoming an important contender for art prizes in terms of prestige and critica...