Paul Smith

Paul was born in Liverpool in 1947 and emigrating to New Zealand in 1973 when his interest in art really began again. Watercolour was the first medium he tried, with the New Zealand landscape offering plenty of inspiration, however a move to acrylic and mixed media has led him to his main interest in contemporary environmental artwork. His main focus is now abstract, incorporating collage and impasto. The use of transparent and opaque colours pushes him beyond the boundaries and into new directions. Spatial and chromatic elements with transparent and opaque passages, adding and subtracting colour, texture and line. Boldness and depth, sometimes subtle, other time strong. He has exhibited in galleries and group exhibitions throughout the South Island and in Wellington.