Paul Gallagher

Visual Artist

Paul Gallagher was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and from an early age studied painting, working from text books and making copies of works by the artists he most admired. The result was a slow breakthrough to a personal style of painting that demonstrates not only a meticulous knowledge of materials and their applications, but an ability to use an eclectic approach, employing a variety of media such as ink, acrylic and pastel. He has exhibited primarily in the North East, most recently at the Clayton Gallery, Newcastle, Darlington Art Gallery, Washington Arts Centre and University of Northumbria Gallery.

Paul is interested in the familiar, the immediate countryside that we often pass without noticing. These small unspectacular clumps of woodland, slightly sloping fields, wire fences and tangled scrubby hedges present a wealth of information about landscape form. Horizontal lines, dips and skylines scattered with odd houses and sheds present through his work a controlled essay in the unseen part of English landscape we all take for granted.