Paul Hartel

Paul Hartel – Art biographic statement

I think of my work as celebrating the spirit of the ‘inner child’ through an improvisational energy, retained in strokes, lines, and colours. I strive to create a visual immediacy that may be combatively intense, keeping the viewer’s eye in perpetual motion. I like to conceptualise my work as a bridge between fantasy and abstract reality that challenges our thoughts, perceptions, follies and wits. 

Originally from New York, I now live in Sligo Ireland. I paint with mixed media including oils, acrylics, oil pastels and charcoal, in figurative, abstract and neo-expressionist styles, with influences that include De Kooning, Mitchel, Kline, Twombly and Wool. I’ve exhibited and enjoyed representation by art galleries in New York City, San Diego, Miami, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Montreux, Athens, Venice, London and Dublin with works currently in residence at Green Gallery, Dublin, and Vivid Gallery, Sligo, Ireland.