Paul Wilson

I paint with colour, not in colour but with colour. Colour is the material and the message in my art. Then there are objects which you will find in your under-sink cupboard that I find such beauty in that they find their way onto my canvas: detergent pouches, light bulbs and earplugs. Metal fascinates me too: mercury, silver and gold. So my art becomes the sum of the challenges of the materials. Alchemy, John Dee, influences me as much as Malevich and Vermeer; but if you wanted an "elevator pitch" for my work it would be Vermeer as imagined by Malevich. My works usually start out from a titleand often that is a title of a piece of music; this gives me the sound of the music to shape the work but also a defined scope for the images which emerge. I lived and worked in Eastern Europe for 12 years but on my return to the UK I left all my paintings behind and started anew. All the works you see on these pages are from 2014.

2006 - Tirana Art Lab Contemporary Centre, Tirana, Albania
"Gold is the Metal with the Broadest Shoulders" (solo show)
2005 - Tirana Art Lab Contemporary Centre, Tirana, Albania
"Tendencies 4" (group show)
2003 - The A Gallery, London
"Winter Exhibition" (group show)
2001 - Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
"The Vision and the Void" (group show with Ceco Subehadin and Svatopluk Klimes)
2001 - Galerie Jiří Ŝvestka, Prague, Czech Republic
"Heaven's Blade" (solo show)
1999 - Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
"The Inmost Light" (solo show)
1998 - Sofia City Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
"The Shock of the New" (group show)
1995 - Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
"Insect and Individual Silenced" (solo show)
1994 - Galerie Ars Nova, Lodz, Poland
"The Golden Section" (solo show)