British artist specialising in large scale heavily texture portraits in oil paint, amongst other mediums including sculpture, celebrating icons of stage, screen, and sport. Well known for travelling the world live painting with Formula One, Paul has also created work with Team Sky on the Tour of Britain, with Chelsea FC to celebrate their 2017 premiership title win, for Bruno Mars to mark his 24k Magic World tour in Las Vegas, and personally for Sir Brad Wiggins, Alex Ferguson and Muhammad Ali’s birthdays.

Largely self-taught with no formal art classes since secondary school, I started painting again following the cessation of competitive cycling aged 29, and the spare time suddenly found myself with. The quickly rediscovered skill of making a subjectively attractive looking mess was the start of a life changing journey.

 I was alright at school if I remember correctly, being able to replicate Monet’s style reasonably, draw pretty realistically in pencil, and won a prize for something aged 5. But – thankfully to be honest – I was persuaded to follow a more academic route instead of art college, being advised that it’s tough to make a career out of art…. and went on to study Aerospace Systems Engineering at university. As it panned out, that meant that a decade later when I started throwing paint around the initially spotless kitchen, that I could practice, learn and develop my style un-pressured – to gradually build up to the sole focus it’s become now, of being my passion, life and livelihood all in one. My ‘first piece back’ in 2005 was a simple abstract…. but still had the now ubiquitous splats and thick texture. From there it’s been continual development improving with practice, learning from trial, error and logical thought. Painting at weekends as a break from software brand development, my first gallery show was in 2008, and I thought I was balancing things pretty well. However…. since focusing on painting full time since early 2010, it all went a little nuts….

Within the world of F1 Paul has created portraits live with McLaren to mark Jenson’s last race in Abu Dhabi, with Scuderia Ferrari in Monaco, for Lewis Hamilton to mark his 2014 world title, and for Instituto Ayrton Senna to mark 20 years since his passing.

Working in partnership with Formula One Management – shown in every F1 Paddock Club globally.

Featured on CNN’s ‘The Circuit’ to 300 million homes, on ITV4’s Goodwood Festival of Speed coverage, MTV, Channel News Asia Breakfast, Mobil1 the Grid, Chelsea FC TV and on the F1 world feed including Sky F1, C4 and NBC.

Gallery solo shows include ‘ROAR!’ Safari in collaboration with Bristol Zoo, The Art of Star Wars, ‘80’s Kid’ London celebrating the icons of the decade, and numerous F1 specific shows around the world.

Honoured to work with British Embassies in F1 cities under their ‘Creativity is GREAT Britain’ banner.