My passion is in poetically expressing nature’s dynamic variety and humanities evolving role as its voice. The varied modalities of my art are defined by my emotional response to the creative moment. Critical in this journey is my eternal fascination with the tension between opposing forces for it is here that the inherent dichotomy of life, the dynamic interface between ideas, spreads out its wealth of artistic potential. Born from the battles of competing energies, blue and brown, control and release, decay and rebirth, new insights emerge that enhance the meaning of our collective experience.—Paul King

Midway (2006) Oil on Panel, 18 x 13 in.

The impressions of making and enjoying art were pervasive during Paul King’s childhood as he was raised in a family were both parents were professionally involved in the arts. As if predetermined from this rich beginning, his education and fulfilling career have flowed naturally and become his life’s work.In the mid seventies King attended The Philadelphia College of Art, now known as the University of the Arts, for his Bachelors. He then went on to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for four additional years with artists such as Sidney Goodman, Bruce Samuelson and Seymour Remenick. After the Academy he traveled extensively studying in the major art centers of Europe. To round out his education, King attended Boston University and earned his Masters degree studying primarily under James Weeks and Robert D’Arista.King has continuously painted and exhibited locally while selling to clients nationally. Additionally he has been teaching art since the mid eighties at the University of the Arts, Swarthmore College and Moravian College, all in the Philadelphia region. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of the Arts.While being actively involved in the visual arts regionally, doing numerous private and corporate commissions, directing an art center and showing locally, King was recently published in a widely distributed book entitled, “Mothers” published by Running Press which highlighted paintings of contemporary but mostly historical painters.Entering the middle stage of his career, King is gaining a wider audience for his art by looking to exhibit more extensively on a national level.