Paul Vincent
On your marks $550 Status: Available
Heads Up $1,200 Status: Available
The Girl from Ipamena (Take 2) $650 Status: Available
The Girl from Ipanema (Take 3) $950 Status: Available
Burbling $1,000 Status: Available
Travelling with Marcel $1,850 Status: Sold
A range of Paul Vincent’s artworks are still on display at Exhibitions Gallery, 20A Brandon Street, Wellington
Enquiries ron@exhibitionsgallery.co.nz
or phone: (04) 499 6356
Referred to, by many, as the “King of Quirk”, Paul revels in the spontaneity and randomness of everyday life. “Painting for me,” he states, “is the cat’s tail flicking around the corner.”
Happiest in “the heat of battle, overcoming obstacles and challenges – battling on until all the forces that disrupt completion of a painting are overcome”, resulting in something beautiful, but perhaps just as significantly, a byproduct of his experience.
Unencumbered, believing that ‘real art’, does not need a message, Paul creates by arranging lines, shapes, and patterns of words. Underpinning ‘the quirk’, Paul’s work comprises of what appears initially to be a restrained colour palette, but reveals on closer inspection, a myriad of tonal nuances.
More than just a purveyor of the absurd, Paul’s thoughtful use of colour, form and space creates balance and abstraction culminating in the sublime.
‘When art does not know its own name, when it does not have to be anything at all – it is free!’