Paul Shakespear lives and works in the Boston area. He is a native Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was educated at Boston College, Manchester University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paul Shakespear experiments with the material properties of paint creating translucence and depth. The work has no narrative. It is all about the tactile quality of the painting and its luminosity.
Thirty or more thin acrylic glazes are brushed, troweled, and rubbed on each painting to achieve the final painting surface.
Looking into them is like peering into a giant aquarium. The paintings have a sensuality and, at the same time a formal and modernist format.
The artist says that he keeps painting because he sees that the simple combination of paint, canvas and wood can achieve a mysteriously powerful compression of emotion, memory, and visual delight.
Painting, like making music, is an activity beyond words, a reaching for the emotional and unconscious world.
