Paul graduated from KABK The Hague in 2013. His work, mostly in oil, is playfull, both abstract and figurative. When taking a longer look at his abstract work you realise that it does refer to a figurative subject, although Paul often did not mean to. He likes the viewer to build their own ideas around what they see on the canvas. We love his use of subdued colours, the way he mixes them and uses them layer on layer.

Artist's statement
'My practice consists of paintings and drawings which contain a constantly growing vocabulary of images. This vocabulary consists of objects and perceptions from my daily surroundings, particularly things that carry a certain comedic banality. In the process of painting I transform these mundane objects into separate beings that carry a strange relation to the human body. My work has a strong relation to language. For example, a small single image to me is like a word, whereas a larger painting feels more like a sentence. Like words, my images seem clearly defined, but open up an unstable field of significance and ambiguity. With the vocabulary in my paintings, I research the complex relation between the human perception and its surroundings.'

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