Paul Cowling
I am a self taught artist and have had no formal training.
The mediums I use are Charcoal and Chalk, Pastels, Ink, Acrylic Ink, Acrylics, Gouache, water colour, Oils, Pencil Graphite, Derwent coloured pencils and dry pigment.
The subject matter, well when I am doing commissions I will tackle anything portraits animal and human, landscape, architectural, room interiors, decorative house signs and imaginative art. I like to use my art to comment on what is happening in the world and some of my work has a spiritual element to it as well as producing purely decorative art.
The techniques I like to use in producing my art are vehicles to convey depth and detail, I want the observer to feel that they could step into a painting and as though the painting support is not a flat surface but a 3d space. To achieve this I use techniques such as "Ambience, Stippling, Pointillism, Optical Mixing and Colour/Tone and Linear perspective".
