A Paul Wadsworth painting hangs in our living room - a shard of sunlight leaping up from a Cornish moor, a bright streak of yellow bursting from an earthy Celtic landscape. The painting changes during the day; as the light shifts around it the image seems to dance, a bold swathe of dark green coming in and out of focus, the clouds in the sky billowing and rearranging. Sometimes I can see figures moving along the ridgeway at the point where the land meets the sky. At other times, I just see an explosion of colour.
There is nothing 'touristy' here; this is the work of someone who has immersed himself in these landscapes, succumbed to them, become intoxicated by them. They are overwhelmingly positive and life-affirming. A painting of trees over water shimmers and shifts, the colours constantly rearranging themselves, reflections moving as if still fluid. I think that's what I love most about Paul's work - the sense that each painting is still growing, still evolving, still finding its own story. I could look at them for hours, days, years. I am sure you will feel the same.
Mark Kermode film critic
1992-94 Ipswich College of Art and Design
1994-97 Falmouth College of Arts BA (Hons) Fine Art
Selected Exhibitions
2001 Majlis Gallery residency and Solo Show, Dubai
2002 Solo Show, Badcocks Gallery, Newlyn - exploring the use of gold and mixed media in painting
2002 Pilgrim Gallery, Holborn
2002 Kings Road Gallery, Solo Show London
2002 Majlis Gallery, Dubai Solo Show and two month residency
2003 Solo show-Eastern Jewels Kings Road Gallery, London - exploring imagery from travel in the Middle East
2003 Solo Show, Majlis Gallery, Dubai month residency
2003 Joint show, Gallery 27, Cork Street, London
2003 Woolff Gallery, London
2004 Anthony Hepworth Gallery, Bath
2004 Solo show Coast to Coast, Beside The Wave Gallery, Falmouth
2005 Hunting art prize - London show
2005 Kings Road Gallery solo show
2005 Newlyn Gallery Cornwall…
2005 Majlis Gallery Dubai Solo Show large mixed media pieces
2005 Badcocks Gallery Newlyn - Solo Show
2005 Solo Show Open Spaces, Beside The Wave Gallery, Falmouth
2006 Solo show Goldfish Contemporary, Cornwall
2006 Majlis Gallery Dubai - solo show two month residency painting. Dubai art fair
2007 Campden Gallery - Chipping Campden - exploring images from the Middle East
2007 Stronarch Gallery , Ireland
2007 Abu Dhabi Art, Paris. Bait Munza gallery Oman
2007 Tresco Collection for Tresco Estate
2007 Majlis gallery solo show Dubai
2007 Collection for Saudi Arabian investment bank
2008 Hilton-Young Gallery, Penzance, Solo Show on the Sacred and Profane
2008 Black Cloth Project working with the model
2008 Campden Gallery Solo Show
2008 Dubai Residency, Gulf Art Fair, Dubai
2009 Collection for Barclays bank Dubai 80 originals
2009 Working on book to be published Arabian Love Story 2009
2009 Caxton contemporary Solo Show drawings.
2009 Majlis Gallery Dubai Solo Show
2009 Janet Rady Fine Art
2010 Majlis gallery book signing and print show from Arabian love story book goes to the Abu Dhabi Royal Family
2010 Bait Muinza Gallery, Oman
2010 Newlyn Gallery Cornwall black cloth project video
Paul was elected to be a Member of Newlyn Society of Artists in 2004
Travel in the Middle East, Arab Emirates and Oman from 2000 to 2010 to paint and gather resource material. .
2011 Majlis gallery - Dubai Solo Show
2011 Campden Gallery Solo Show Arabian Love Story
2011 Bo Hilton fine arts Bath Solo Show
2012 Majlis gallery Solo Show works from Oman over 3 months travel in the Country
2012 Crypt gallery, St Ives, Black Cloth Project Solo Show
2012 Beside the Wave Gallery Falmouth Solo Show - West to East. Paintings from Cornwall and Oman.
2013 Travels to Oman and Dubai
2013 Campden Gallery Solo Show stories from the cloth
2014 Hilton Fine Art - Bath
2014 Beside the Wave Gallery, Falmouth
2014 Majlis Gallery, Dubai
2015 Travels in India Solo Show at Campden Gallery - Stories from the Banyon Tree
2015 Tresco gallery
2015 Penwith gallery, St Ives - Solo Show
2015 Cricket Fine Art Christmas Exhibition - Mixed Show
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