Paul Smith
Paul Smith is a full-time gallery artist, living and working on the edge of the Peak District National Park. All of his figurative ceramic sculptures are unique one-offs, hand-built in paperclay using a variety of different methods. The work is in a bold and semi-abstract style, with graceful sweeping curves and simplified details.
Paul’s work is wide-ranging, encompassing re-interpretations of European folk tales and the people and animals that populate them. Goldilocks has made peace with the bears and Red Riding Hood has grown up to be a confident femme fatale who entrances the Wolf.
Work by Paul Smith is solidly rooted in the figurative tradition. He particularly admires the work of Elie Nadelman. A Polish-born sculptor working in the earlier part of the last century, Nadelman was innovative in his wonderful sense of fluid line and form, influenced in turn by American folk art.
Paul Smith is a full-time gallery artist, living and working on the edge of the Peak District National Park. All of his figurative ceramic sculptures are unique one-offs, hand-built in paperclay using a variety of different methods. The work is in a bold and semi-abstract style, with graceful sweeping curves and simplified details.
Paul’s work is wide-ranging, encompassing re-interpretations of European folk tales and the people and animals that populate them. Goldilocks has made peace with the bears and Red Riding Hood has grown up to be a confident femme fatale who entrances the Wolf.
Work by Paul Smith is solidly rooted in the figurative tradition. He particularly admires the work of Elie Nadelman. A Polish-born sculptor working in the earlier part of the last century, Nadelman was innovative in his wonderful sense of fluid line and form, influenced in turn by American folk art.
