Paul Swan was born in England in 1956. He studied Fine Art at Doncaster College of Art, and Visual Communications at Granville College and Sheffield Polytechnic. Early in his career, he accepted illustration and portrait commissions (human and equine) while developing his own non-representational style. His abstract pieces - based on forms and resonance found in nature - gained recognition and became the focus of his work.
In England he exhibited in London’s Liberty and Chalk Farm galleries and in numerous northern galleries including South Yorkshire Arts. His work was purchased for public, civic and corporate collections, such as the Cardiff docks project, and won prizes in open exhibitions such as the South Yorkshire Open and the Manchester Academy.
He settled permanently in Dublin 1990. Since moving to Ireland, he has completed many private and corporate commissions, and has shown work at: - The Bridge, Sandford, Mill theatre and Airfield House, Galleries in Dublin · The RHA Annual Exhibition · The Boyle Arts Festival · The Department of Arts, Culture & the Gaeltacht. His work has also sold at auction with Whyte’s of Molesworth St, Dublin.
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