My interest in art started when I was doing an arts foundation course with the Open University in the late 1970s. Soon after that, I attended Essex University as a mature student between 1980-83, and graduated with an honours degree in Art History & Theory. That wonderful time at the University of Essex gave me the opportunity to learn something about the ‘Story of Art’.

I have been painting for about 14 years. I use mainly acrylic media to express my work, because the quick drying time of acrylic paint, and the things you can add to it, make it a good medium for much of my painting. In a lot of the harbour scenes, I have introduced collage material.

‘Recent Work’  shows a mixture of subjects – woodland, abstraction, and scenes from Devon & Cornwall. Abstraction is something I would like to paint more. It has always intrigued me why some artists make that final journey from the figurative to a more abstract style. It rarely happens the other way around. I think fundamentally it is about our feelings, and that search to find a visual representation of them. To the viewer, some abstract paintings can dig deep, and reveal those special ‘spots of time’.

Paintings under ‘Past Work’  are the same mixture of subjects and styles as above in recent work. I have found it difficult to settle  into one subject or one style of painting, but I think that makes painting for me more interesting.

Please feel free to contact me on my email address: paulgoughartist@gmail.com