Paul Horton | For Your Good Heart

“Art is my life. I feel that I am on a journey, a crusade creating new and exciting images, with diverse influences.”

Paul Horton has created a world inspired by his sheer optimism for life and love for the family. He brings with it his own unique iconography and motifs, guided by his innate skill as a storyteller through his art. The house is seen as a symbol of love and the family, a protector and sanctuary from the world outside. He offers the gift of happiness, where the spirit of love is imbued in everything and each painting has its own special ambience. Paul is passionate about what he creates and this is obvious to so many who continue to be captivated by his work.

FOR YOUR GOOD HEART Giclee on paper | Framed 27” x 26” | £395 | Edition of 195

OUR FAITHFUL FRIEND Giclee on paper | Framed 20” x 19” | £225 | Edition of 295

IT’S WRITTEN IN THE STARS Canvas on Board | Framed 22” x 43” | £595 | Edition of 195

WE BELONG TO THE SEA Giclee on paper | Framed 34” x 29” | £595 | Edition of 195

FOR YOUR GOOD HEART Giclee on paper | Framed 27” x 26” | £395 | Edition of 195

History & Background

Ideas & Inspirations

Paul Horton wanted to be an artist for as long as he can remember. After studying drawing and painting at Bournville School of Art, he set out on a career within the printing industry, managing to combine this with an ever-developing style of work in both fine art and illustration, selling and exhibiting his work at regular intervals. It wasn’t until the autumn of 1997 that he turned professional, dedicating for the first time ever, all of his energy into art. Paul held a major one-man retrospective exhibition in the summer of 1998 entitled ‘All in a Life’s Work’, representing his artistic journey. In October 2013, Paul’s debut museum exhibition, Love & Hope, took place at Waterhall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

Growing up in Birmingham in the sixties and seventies has given Paul many memories to draw upon; it has given him his identity and working class ethic. The working man in Paul’s industrial street scenes is an iconic figure reflecting the industrial age, but it could be in any city or any town. Art is Paul’s life, a passion within him. He feels that he is on a journey creating new and exciting image and adding a unique and inspired view of the world. As Paul started painting so young, he cannot recall a definitive point of inspiration, but from about the age of ten he was inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites. His early paintings were figurative studies in the Pre-Raphaelite style; he has always enjoyed the challenge of drawing and painting people. Life is a mosaic of different memories, we all experience so many emotions from great joy to deep sorrow, from the nostalgic to the magical - these experiences are the source of Paul’s paintings, offering universal themes that he hopes will appeal to popular imagination.

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