Paul Fry
Current CollectionI paint mostly from memory - the scent of a flower, a landscape absorbed while walking or a plant that catches my eye in passing through the garden.
Recently not far from home in the corner of field I heard a skylark, it’s high frequency song demanding my attention - I'm moved. It has made an impression on me that is hard to
explain - I may not actually paint that skylark, but there is a good chance that the memory of that encounter will appear in a painting in the form of a brush stroke, a mark made in graphite or a scratch of the pallet knife - it is this distilling of things that fill my paintings.
Qualifications
1998-02 BA Honours Fine Art, Falmouth College of Art, Cornwall
1997-98 Art & Design Foundation, Falmouth College of Art, Cornwall
Residencies
2000-1 Resident artist, Shute Farm Studios, Downhead, Somerset
Exhibitions
2014 AAF Battersea, London – Badcocks Gallery, Cornwall
2014 Penwith Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2014 Padstow Fine Art, Padstow, Cornwall
2014 Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Winchester, Hampshire
2014 AAF Hampstead, London – Badcocks Gallery, Cornwall
2013 ‘Postcards’ Tremenheere Sculpture Garden – Badcocks Gallery, Cornwall
2013 AAF Battersea, London - Badcocks Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
2013 RÉN fine art, The Rose Theatre, Ascot, Surrey
2013 ‘Suspended Sentences’ Turners Warehouse, Newlyn, Cornwall
2013 ‘Fiat Lux’ Tapp project, Limbo, Truro, Cornwall
2013 ‘All for one and one for all’ Leth project, Limbo, Truro, Cornwall
2013 Bucca Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
2012 AAF Battersea, London - Badcocks Gallery, Cornwall
2012 Quidity Gallery, Andover, Hampshire
2012 Padstow Fine Art, Padstow, Cornwall
2012 Open Space Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall
2012 'Anonymous' Pydar Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
2012 Chapel Gallery, Gulval, Penzance
2012 'Cornwall Open Studios' Trewidden, Penzance, Cornwall
2012 'Small Works' Hilton Fine Art, Bath, Somerset
2011 'Postcards for Shelter Box' Badcocks Gallery, Cornwall
2011 'Winter Show' Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Winchester, Hampshire
2011 'Autumn Show' Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Winchester, Hampshire
2011 West End House Gallery, Smarden, Kent
2011 AAF Battersea, London - Badcocks Gallery, Cornwall
2011 AAF Battersea, London - The Columbia Road Gallery, London
2011 'New Beginnings' Badcocks Gallery, Cornwall
2011 'Open Studios - The Exhibition' Chapel Gallery, Gulval, Cornwall
2011 'Cornwall Open Studios' Mousehole, Cornwall
2010 'Winter Show' Penwith Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2009 ‘Spring Show’ Penwith Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2009 Kimpeskamp Gallery, Munich, Germany
2008 'Winter Show’ Penwith Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2008 'Spring Show’ Penwith Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2008 ‘Cornwall Open Studios’ Penzance, Cornwall
2006 ‘Reunion’ Fal River Festival, Falmouth, Cornwall
2006 ‘Cornwall Open Studios’ Falmouth, Cornwall
2005 Corner Stone Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2003 Atkinson Gallery, Street, Somerset
2003 ‘Spring show’ Penwith Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2002 Waterstones, Taunton, Somerset
2001 ‘Mid-stream’ Falmouth College Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall
2000 ‘Somerset Art' Shute Farm Studios, Downhead, Somerset
2000 ‘Circa’ Birdwood House, Totnes, Devon.
1999 The Brewery Arts Centre, Cirencester, Wiltshire