Paul Walls (b.1965)

Paul Walls (b.1965)
Irish Scrum
Signed P Walls bottom right
Oil on paper
15.2 x 22.8cm

Royal Ulster Academy of Arts (RUA) Academician Paul Walls is a full time artist and painter who likes to work in series. His reputation rests on his fascination with heavily impastoed, textured works in which the oil paint is applied so thickly that the brush work stands proud of the canvas and become structural, even sculptural in nature. His treatment of the paint surface is physical and gestural, encouraged by his appreciation of the work of key expressionist painters such as Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Lucien Frued, and latterly, Maxim Kantor.