People and Places - Paul puts on an exhibition

I can never hang a painting on the wall without a slight feeling of nervousness. Is it the right place? Is it level? Is it going to fall down? Is the frame right? And so on. Consequently, hanging my first ever solo exhibition (yes, at my age!) this state of agitation was somewhat exacerbated as you might imagine. Still, it was nice to be back in 92 Degrees  and it was gratifying to have the first show after lockdown (I know we’re not quite in the clear yet). Mine is the fourth exhibition at 92 from LIAS (Liverpool Nude twice and Art from the Start once) and this time they have a new method for hanging the pictures which threw us completely at first but we did eventually get the hang of it.
Above: Toc getting to grips with 92's new hanging system.

I also had to do some curating on the day. I’d taken 37 paintings and we had space for around 20 so as the show was called ‘People and Places, I decided to balance the two themes, 10 people; 10 places. There’s a distinct Liverpool bias to the ‘Places’ side, (7 of the 10), perhaps this tells me I should look further afield for my next set of paintings and record some of my travels. I do enjoy travelling and have fallen in love with several places around the world, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Venice, Berlin, Cambodia to name a few, all places where I’ve stood in the street drawing.

Above: 'Berkley Street'

We’re blessed in Liverpool with some marvellous models here in Liverpool and the region and although they’re not all represented in the show I hope they see the figure paintings as an acknowledgement to the creative input an enthusiastic model can have to the making of paintings.
Above: 'Beth by the Window' 

 The exhibition is on until 30th June 2021 so do go along and take a look.

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