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Still I Rise (Paper) by Paul Oz

F1 has been a passion for as long as I can remember… a marriage of my background in competitive sport and studying Aerospace Engineering at University perhaps. All I watched as a sprog was Star Wars – the only VHS we had I reckon! My 10th birthday was a cinema trip to see Empire Strikes Back, and I now have a movie accurate Stormtrooper in the hall. I credit the basis of my creativity to literally decades messing with Lego. And I’m for sure proud to be British. There we have the vast majority of my subject matter over recent years!

As for style of painting, thats been kind of a natural progression too. I’ve never read a text book, no formal lessons since 16 when they told me to aim for engineering instead as no one ever makes any money from art. My ‘first piece back’ aged 29 was a simple abstract…. but still has splats and thick texture. From there it’s been continual development, mostly just by practice, learning from trial and error. I rarely look at other artists work… I’d rather not be swayed by what others are doing. But I’ll always be thinking, experimenting different ways to do things from a structural and material perspective… let alone being allowed to play (sculpt…) with actual raced F1 components now too… how on earth is that ‘work’!