Paradise Bay

“The ideas and inspiration are there all of the time and it's something I no longer need to go in search of.”

The Dorset landscape is an area of great beauty and an obvious source of inspiration. Whenever possible, Paul will take the family off to the countryside to explore nature, as he did when he was a child. In 2013 they moved to a new house near Wimborne, Dorset, a semi rural area and within a very short drive they are into the open countryside that they love so much.

In the past, Paul’s ideas and inspiration were drawn from his own childhood and also watching his children as they were growing up. The books that they read and the TV shows that they watched when they were very young would often influence him quite a lot. Now that his own children are teenagers, he has found his influences have changed with the passing of time. He says: “I've had many years now to grow into this style that I paint in and I find that the ideas flow completely freely from within.”