Paul Whitehouse OAS – portfolio

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07366 570705
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Artist information

I came to art quite late in life, starting with local life classes and then progressing to courses in London. Most of may painting is quite figurative but, for reasons I don’t entirely understand, I find sculpture takes me in a more abstract direction. After a career in environmental science, I retired in 2020 to devote more time to my growing interest in making art. You’ll often find me in my rather cramped studio in Crowmarsh Gifford, surrounded by an odd collection of sticks, stones and fossils, listening to Radio 4.

In 2021, I took part in Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year and his heat, at The Eden Project in Cornwall, was aired in February 2022. I’ve also exhibited at The Mall Galleries in London, the Crypt Gallery in St. Ives, Oxfordshire Museum at Woodstock, Turrill Sculpture Garden in Oxford, Oxfordshire Artweeks and regularly exhibits with Reading Guild of Artists and Oxford Art Society.

Exhibition information

I celebrate the man-made and natural environment in paint and sculpture.

I likes to weave a story into my work, reflecting on our place in the landscape and the ‘echoes’ we leave behind. You’ll see lots of geometric shapes in both my painting and sculpture, strong contrasts of light and dark and an ‘earthy’ naturalistic palette. Painting mainly in oils, I often underpaint very loosely in acrylics to create random marks that come through in the final work. My sculpture is mainly in stone and more abstract, but always inspired by natural forms and repeating patterns in nature.