About Paschal Lawton

Hello, my name is Paschal Lawton and as an artist based in the West of Ireland I've been making and selling artworks for about twenty five years now. I have an undergraduate degree from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin where I specialised in Fine Art Print. Though only occasionally formally represented, I have sold and handled shipments to people all over the world. I have participated in many group and open submission exhibitions over the years including the Royal Ulster Academy in Belfast and the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, where I received the Fergus O'Ryan Memorial Painting Award in 2005 and the ESB Moran Award for sculpture in 2014. My motivation for this work is simply that I can't shake my fascination with the primitive magic of image making. We're bombarded daily with visual culture and there seems simply to be a seductive primacy in the act of image-making and the exploration of form: it feels like a wholly natural transaction to me. I normally paint using acrylics and oils on board, and sculpt using a variety of media including polyester and polyurethane resins, concrete, metal leaf and powdered metals. Artfinder has caught my eye because of a) its reach; b) the ingenuity it employs in connecting collectors with artists, and c) its vetting process, maintaining a pool of work at a set level of quality.