Paul Roberts’ paintings have been described as “dreams made uncomfortably a little real.” At the heart of his work is always the desire to create energy on the canvas - to draw the viewer into a fragmentary still of a world that is between realities.
“Paul Roberts paints with a natural fluency which seems to owe little to any academic training. He paints as some people speak, with a poetic directness that can afford to be ungrammatical.” Bryn Richards, The Guardian
”As staggering as the subjects is the sheer technique used in their depiction; the attention to detail is minute, and Paul Roberts’ treatment of light and skin places him amongst the classic masters of flesh.” Rupert Wilcox-Baker, Art Review
His works have been shown in various solo and group shows in London, Paris, Amsterdam and New York.
Paul Roberts was born to artist parents in Devon in 1948. He studied art at Cardiff, Newport and Goldsmith’s Colleges of Art at a time when Basic Design and an emerging conceptualism were framing the future of British art practice. Roberts chose instead to exploit his extraordinary technical abilities to relate to the imaginative worlds of the cinema, the theatre, the performance of life.
Having gained early recognition in London and Paris, Paul Roberts went on to show successfully with the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery in London, at the same time developing a parallel career as the singer and songwriter with the band Sniff’n’the Tears, whose worldwide hit “Driver’s Seat” entered the US Top Ten in 1979. This meant that the demands of the music business changed the balance of his creativity until recently, although he has never stopped painting.
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