Paul
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| Paul Woodford was born in 1950
and brought up in Southampton. Although art played no part
in his early life, the effect of a chance encounter with
the painting of Monet and the sculpture of Brancusi lead
him to study Fine Art at Portsmouth Lion gate as a mature
student where he gained a First Class Degree. In 1998 he
moved to Wales and settling in Porthcawl, took a post at
Neath Port Talbot College where he lectured in Fine Art. |
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| It was in Wales
he gave himself over completely to landscape painting.
Exhibitions of his landscapes soon followed with work being
purchased by The National Library of Wales and The Palace
of Westminster. |
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Paul
Woodford's landscapes are not populated and even familiar
places can seem remote and empty. This allied to his
unique painting technique and use of colour, describe
a deep beauty in landscape that goes beyond the picturesque.
Although he has painted across Wales, Ireland and Brittany,
Paul Woodford's more recent work has become a study
of the South Wales coastline. |
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| "My
paintings have always had the same underlying concerns.
I am fascinated by the meeting of rock and water, of
sky touching horizons, the 'edges' of landscape. In the
same way, I love the 'edges' formed when representation
meets abstraction, when hot colour meets cold and when
light meets dark. Using my layering of Japanese papers
and acrylic paints I stitch the sky to the earth and
unify opposing formal elements to make a view that is
topographically similar but is seen anew. My sketchbook
is my diary, technical notebook and repository for ideas.
It acts as mediator between myself the subject and the
painting." |
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| "I am deeply
passionate about landscape. My love of it inspires my
painting and my dismay at the damage we afflict upon
it leads me to believe that a politics of landscape is
a future politic." |
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