Pattern and structure are, for me, the instigators of aesthetic enjoyment. Cities, the urban fabric redolent with historic associations, are my pre-occupation.
Paul G. Russell is an artist, writer and producer for film and stage, with a background in art history (M.A., University of Toronto). He attended studio classes on the Toronto campus with instruction from Canadian artists Will Ogilvie and Aba Bayefsky. Continuing his studies in London on an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant, he assessed the stylistic eccentricities of Neapolitan Baroque Staircases at the Courtauld Institute with art historian Anthony Blunt and was mentored in oil painting at St. Martins School of Art, then Whitechapels Sir John Cass College, by Royal Academy member Adrian Bury and artist/commentator Alan Jarvis.
Recent Exhibitions
2011- Urban Seen: Art at Axis, Toronto. February-April.
2010- Cabbagetown Walkabout: Art at the Pear Tree, Toronto. August.
2009 - Cabbagetown and Beyond : Art at the Pear Tree, Toronto. August-September.
2009 - Abridged: Paintings by Paul G. Russell, at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto. April.
2008 - Caritas. (Group Show) at the Archer Gallery, Toronto, October.
2008 - Drawings (Group Show) Lodge at Amherst Island, Ontario, September. …Read More