Paul J Best

Joined Artfinder: Dec. 2013

Artworks for sale: 432

(29)

United Kingdom

Updates from Paul J Best's studio

  • Abstracting the landscape

    Abstracting the landscape

    This past week I have spent a couple of days on a great course led by Michael Weller at the fabulous Hampshire Art Studio on the bank of the River Dever, near Stockbridge in Hampshire. It has been great to sharpen my painting axe.. working with a limited range of colours and focusing on line, colour and tone. Inevitably mine ended up more impressionistic than abstract .... Seems that I just cannot help myself. However the paintings that I created do have a different quality I feel.

    19 June 2022
    Out on the Solent

    Out on the Solent

    I am very pleased to be dispatching my original painting 'Out on the Solent I' to a new home in Southampton this week.

    14 June 2022
    Optimism

    Optimism

    It is a pleasure to be dispatching my painting 'Optimism' to a new home in Southampton today. Every so often there is particular painting that seems to mark a change of direction in style.

    10 June 2022
    Behind the Scenes Work

    Behind the Scenes Work

    Sometimes it is worth remembering that when considering the price and value of paintings purchased on line, that there is a not inconsiderable amount of time and effort that does into the transaction including the paperwork, packaging and transit. In this case arrangement for collection by DHL and three copies of forms for USA customs. With Brexit you also need to have EORI tax registration for any exports to the EU and actually now also in reality for the USA. I have a limited company and accountant with much of the paperwork already in place to submit tax returns but it is not for the faint hearted!

    30 May 2022
    Sidi Bou Said

    Sidi Bou Said

    I am pleased to have sold another paintings from my 'Powerful places' series of paintings. This one is is off to Seattle. The painting draws on my memories of the colourful village of Sidi Bou Said on the Tunisian coast. It is a painters dream here in blue and white and the place where Paul Klee had the marked turning point in his use of light and colour. "Colour has taken possession of me," he wrote. These paintings draw on inspiration from my travels which is of course a bit of an ego trip for me...but I have sold a fair few now...so I have a great excuse to paint some more!

    25 May 2022
    Summer Borders

    Summer Borders

    I am pleased to have sold my painting ' The Vyne Flower meadow II ' this week from a Hampshire Gallery. Gives me a good excuse to paint some more floral border paintings at a nice large format! Commissions always welcomed.

    22 May 2022
    Strata I

    Strata I

    I am pleased to have sold and dispatched my painting 'Strata I' to a buyer in Chicago. Gives me encouragement to try some similar compositions with a range of colours at a larger scale possibly?

    13 May 2022
    Farley, Hampshire

    Farley, Hampshire

    I have really enjoyed painting outside again this week for the first time this year. The experience is very different to working in the studio. Yesterday there was a background of skylark song which somehow helped to associate the experience of painting with the landscape and the memory of place I think.

    05 May 2022
    'En Plein Air' at Farley Mount in Hampshire

    'En Plein Air' at Farley Mount in Hampshire

    It was fabulous to get out yesterday painting again in the Hampshire Landscape for the first time this year. The Spring greens are super bright and the rape fields are out in flower which offers those welcome flashes of lemon yellow. ...bit of artistic licence possibly with the foreground to provide some additional colour and interest!

    05 May 2022
    St Barbe Gallery and Museum, Lymington . Open Exhibition

    St Barbe Gallery and Museum, Lymington . Open Exhibition

    I am dropping off my painting 'New Forest Walk IV ' for exhibition and for sale in the St Barbe Gallery and Museum open exhibition today. The exhibition opens on 30th April and runs until 11th June. There will be work exhibited by 80 local and regional artists.

    22 April 2022
    Titchfield Art and Craft Show 2022

    Titchfield Art and Craft Show 2022

    I am dropping off my submissions for the Titchfield Art and Craft show today including 'Golden Woods'. There are three paintings on deep box canvases and six mounted portfolio folio works on paper. This show has grown to be a very well attended show of regional importance with a large number of very talented artists and craftspeople participating. Preview night is Friday 22nd April. Last year I sold five of my nine submitted paintings!

    21 April 2022
    Yellow edge Gallery , Hampshire Exhibition

    Yellow edge Gallery , Hampshire Exhibition

    I am very pleased to have my large 100 cm x 100 cm painting 'Freshwater bay in Winter as one of my four paintings exhibited as part of the Yellow edge Gallery Open exhibition this week alongside 27 other local artists.

    20 April 2022