Paul Woods
Born in 1958; Paul resides in France. He studied at St Martins School of Art - London where he gained a BA (Fine Art) Hon's. 2-1.
He has had many solo and group exhibitions in London and abroad. In the late 80's he set up his own gallery The Coventry Gallery - London where he exhibited the works of new artists' in group, themed exhibitions.
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During this time he had a portrait painting exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery - London as a part of the prestigious BP Portrait Award 1994.
Currently he is involved with running the UK's only erotic life-drawing classes, creative events organisation and television work. He has appeared many times on UK and International television as a guest speaker talking about his art and drawing classes and has also appeared in national and international newspapers and magazines.
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He strongly believes in drawing skills as a basis for all his creativity and strives to apply those skills, pushing personal boundaries, producing exciting, beautiful and occasionally disturbing artwork.
Producing imagery that investigates extremes of human sexuality inevitably involves dealing with a broad spectrum of emotions and physical acts. Ranging from the ideal of love in all its exultant joy to the dark and disturbing which, when approached through art, can also be rendered beautiful.
Together with Christopher John Ball; Paul is a founder member of the Association of Erotic Artists.
''Paul's very personal approach to life drawing is to render the figure from multi-viewpoints thus revealing details that would otherwise be hidden from a single viewpoint. Details are revealed through transparent superimposition of body elements leading to exciting distortions of the figure in a method Paul refers to as morphic cubism. Coupled with these distortions Paul offsets subtle tonal ranges created through delicate hatch and cross hatching against strong contrasts of light and shadow. The result is a richly coloured series of powerful and disturbing images exploring the beauty and sexuality of the human form.'' - Stefan Prince
Copyright Paul Woods© 2003
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