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Paul J Best

Joined Artfinder: Dec. 2013

Artworks for sale: 414

(28)

United Kingdom

Updates from Paul J Best's studio

  • Tashinga Exhibition

    Tashinga Exhibition

    Tashinga at Bishops Waltham have continued to stock and exhibit a selection of my original paintings and a particularly wide range of my mounted and backed limited edition prints over the past three years . I am grateful for their continued support. There have been a steady stream of sales and this has also led to sales through my Artfinder web pages. The shop is packed full of unusual gifts and well worth a visit in the lead up to Christmas http://www.tashinga.co.uk/fabulous-original-and-limited-edition-prints-from-a-handful-of-carefully-selected-artists

    19 November 2017
    Exhibition at Winchester Framing

    Exhibition at Winchester Framing

    Winchester Framing and Home currently have on exhibition a selection of my original paintings and limited edition prints, including four paintings in a series inspired by Winchester Cathedral. It is a perfect time of the year to visit Winchester and it's Christmas Market. http://winchesterframing.co.uk/in-house-artists/

    19 November 2017
    Marine Ventures

    Marine Ventures

    I am pleased to currently have two large 102 x102 cm paintings from my 'Marine Ventures ' series of paintings on exhibition at Hardings Gallery in Warsash. Harding's have continued to stock a selection of my original paintings and limited edition prints over the past three years and I am grateful for their continued support.This has a generated a sale through Artfinder in the past week so that is all good ! http://www.hardingspictureframing.co.uk/

    19 November 2017
    Steak of the Art. Southampton

    Steak of the Art. Southampton

    I have four paintings currently on exhibition at the Steak of the Art restaurant at Ocean Village in Southampton including three large 102 cm x102 cm paintings including Hillier Gardens VII shown. This is a great venue with the space to really profile larger paintings. I can recommend a visit. The steaks and burgers are fantastic .. as well as the art of course! https://www.steakoftheart.co.uk/southampton/blog/

    19 November 2017
    My 'Happy Place'

    My 'Happy Place'

    Laughingbird Caye is a particularly 'powerful place ' for me. It is my 'Happy Place' where I escape to in my mind on cold and rainy British winter days. It is 17 miles off the Belize coast from Placencia ( patience in Spanish) so you need a powerful boat to get there. The snorkeling is fantastic with some beautiful tropical sealife to experience but you have to watch out for the fire coral. I particularly remember the barracuda and the curious huge groupers that would come up and ' kiss' you on the face mask. I took the public bus down to Placencia which took for ever then and the roads were terrible but I could not face the bus back. There was a local airport with small plane flights back to Belize city. It is the only time I have boked a flight without asking the cost ! I imagine that the road has been improved now sadly.

    10 September 2017
    Powerful places

    Powerful places

    I am having a great time at the moment exploring in my mind ( and photo archive ) and transferring into paintings memories from my fairly extensive travels as a younger man... BC.. before children! I have been fortunate to have travelled extensively and have an almost endless stock of vivid memories of some powerful places to draw on.

    05 September 2017
    Green Haze

    Green Haze

    I was very pleased to have sold my Painting 'Green Haze' to a buyer in London. This was the last of a series of five paintings that I had painted in turn as a gift for my Sister for her newly decorated Kitchen..... However she rejected them all in turn.... but I am pleased that all have now sold! I am still searching for that abstract perfection that she is seeking. However I must say that it has spurred me on and I think a more satisfying style is finally emerging!

    03 September 2017
    Tangs

    Tangs

    I was very pleased to have sent my large 102cm x102cm painting 'Tangs' off to a buyer in California. It took some wrapping up! It was too large to use my usual courier so I was nervous about delivery time, however I was impressed with how quickly it arrived at its destination within 9 days with Transglobal Express.

    03 September 2017
    Break at Waberswick in Suffolk

    Break at Waberswick in Suffolk

    I have just returned from a really relaxing holiday at Warberswick on the Suffolk coast where I managed to complete four small watercolour paintings. Watercolours are not my usual preferred medium so this was fun for me. Our family rented a house a couple of doors away from where Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a great creative hero of mine lived during the last years of his life around 100 years ago when he concentrated his efforts on his paintings. I was impressed that Warberswick did not play on the Mackintosh connection in any way. However he must of walked the same footpath as we did from the road to the beach and this was a pleasure for me. Mackintosh was arrested in Warberswick as he was carrying a lamp at night so that he could paint at dusk. The local police thought that he might be a German spy signalling to U boats. To them his Scottish accent was too foreign!!

    02 September 2017
    Summer Stream

    Summer Stream

    I am pleased to have sold one of my limited edition prints 'Summer Stream ' recently to a buyer in Stockbridge. This painting was inspired by the iconic chalk stream at Mottisfont Abbey near Romsey. Sadly for me, Art finder no longer lists limited edition prints but my full range of 34 prints are available to purchase at www.the artbarn.com/collections/paul-best

    04 August 2017
    Watercress Line II

    Watercress Line II

    I am very pleased to have sold my painting inspired by the drama of the steam trains running on the watercress line between Alresford and Alton in Hampshire to a buyer in Ropley.

    04 August 2017
    West Dean

    West Dean

    Following some recent experiments with colour and abstraction, I am hoping that a looser more energetic painting style may be emerging in my landscape inspired paintings. My main driving force remains to capture the spirit of place.....the genius loci. What do you think ?

    04 August 2017