BIOGRAPHY

Paul Holt is an English artist who lives in Ascona, Switzerland.

He was born in Yorkshire, UK. He first trained as a draftsman. Then spent one year at art school.

He then trained as a teacher. A profession he exercised in London, until he met his Swiss wife. He went abroad at the age of 25.

He worked and studied in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. While working as a teacher, copywriter, copyeditor, he devoted his time to painting and writing.

Paul Holt is both an artist and a writer. He has written poetry, plays, novels and philosophical works, essays on the arts and on contemporary art.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

“Art … should provide constant aesthetic enjoyment.” Hans Hofmann

Paul Holt is both an abstract and figurative painter (portraits, landscape, still life, flowers). His drawing skills, feeling for colour and sense of composition are apparent in both genres.

Great influences on his figurative painting have been Van Gogh, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Chinese and Japanese Zen painting. Especially Matisse and E.L. Kirchner.

Kandinsky introduced him to the possibilities of abstract painting. His paintings are emotional and spiritual, not mental. His drawing, colours and composition create paintings which evoke both an emotional response and an aesthetic experience.

He paints in oils, watercolours and gouache. All the materials he uses are of the highest quality, Rembrandt oil paint on fine cotton canvas or Canson oil painting paper; for his watercolours and gouache he uses Talens gouache and Windsor & Newton watercolours on Hahnemühle, Canson or Fabriano fine grain watercolour paper.

All paintings of whatever material are original unique artworks and are unmounted and unframed, signed and with a certificate of authenticity.

Please send an inquiry for an online catalogue where you will find over 100 original paintings of all styles, sizes, and materials, to choose from.