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Let Paul Birchall paint a portrait of you!!!!!!
Born in England, Paul completed his studies in fine art at the Wimbeldon School of Art in London and further at Delhi School of Art in India. He studied photography, print making and ceramics at the Blackpool and Fylde College.
Before moving to Cape Town, he exhibited regularly in London and worked in the print making studios of London Contemporary Art fine art publishers.
Since settling in Cape Town in 2003, he has exhibited widely in South Africa, with The Association for Visual Arts, Bell Roberts, Everard Read, Knysna Fine Art,and The Dorp Street Gallery. More recently he has shown work with The Haas Collective, These Four Walls and the Cape Gallery.
In 2008/9 He was a participating artist at the ABSA KKNK in Oudtshoorn. He is actively involved in teaching through his studio at the Spencer Street Studios in Observatory, Cape Town and is regularly involved in community work through the Truworths Social Investment Trust .
His work is in numerous private and public collections.
Mien is a series of Portraits. Series 1: The men
It will be on display from 11 July 2011 - 5 August 2011 in Association with Visual Arts
My third solo exhibition at the AVA is a series of portraits, which will be on show in the Long Gallery.
Inspired by traditional portraiture, I have produced a series of painted portraits of people I know, exploring my interest in really looking at someone who sits before me, thus developing a visual intimacy and level of detail that goes deeper than what is visible on the surface.
In a world where creating a self-image is a daily routine, a world where we present ourselves (or our avatar-egos) for everyone to see, we are more than ever aware of how we want to present ourselves to the world. We seem to live behind a vale of our own concepts of who we are and how we appear in the public gaze. However, by agreeing to be painted, the sitters have given up the right to control how they will appear in a public domain and leave themselves open to vulnerability in the artist’s eye.
To see more of his art...go to www.paulbirchall.co.za
