Paul Emsley
Paul Emsley
Paul Emsleyis a British artist who worked in South Africa until 1996 and is now resident in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England. He is a former lecturer at the Stellenbosch University and the 2007 winner of the BP Portrait Award for portrait painting. His work can be found in most public collections in South Africa, The National Portrait Gallery London and The British Museum. He is known for his large detailed images of people, animals and flowers. There was a major retrospective...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth25 August 1947
Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.
I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.
As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.