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Paul Mitchell

Paul Mitchell is an Irish artist originally from County Tyrone; he currently lives in Newcastle upon Tyne where he works in arts education and within his second studio.

Paul’s work borrows from the traditional motifs of still-life and landscape painting. These technical devices are employed in order to structure the semi figurative spaces reflective of a restless, yet a quiet, anxiety. His paintings ruminate on concepts of memory; personal experiences which are remembered or reinvented. He has been strongly influenced by the rural and semi-rural landscapes of Mid Ulster and Northumberland alongside his academic background in art history. Paul’s work is held within private collections across the UK and Ireland.

In a recent Ph.D proposal Paul explored themes around the male artist’s concept of the artist. However, his work essentially explores the inherent and historic problems of painting, the impossibility of truly replicating experience, perhaps the absurdity of even trying, but try we continue to do in spite of all that has gone before.

“Remember that a painting before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order” - Maurice Denis.