Born Dundee Scotland 1965
Lives and Works in Oxfordshire
1984 - Goldsmiths University Foundation
1985 - 1987 BA Wimbledon School of Art Sculpture
1987 - 1989 MA Royal College of Art Sculpture
Paul Kessling often uses distinctive painterly structures, stacks of stripes or fields of moving paint, forming images required of the same three dimensional form, but in a two dimensional space.
Paul Kessling trained as a sculptor under the tutelage of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi*at the Royal College of Art. After winning a traveling scholarship to study the Easter Island Statues his career took an unexpected swerve. With little room for materials he purchased some bottles of French ink and so began his journey as a painter, a medium he has been exploring ever since, developing how he sees and engages with the natural world.
Forming his abstract paintings using the same sculptural discipline required of the three dimensional form, but in two dimensional space. Kessling paintings evolve mainly from landscape; from places observed, sometimes just glimpsed, but always remembered.
The routines of painting form a discipline of looking and working with paint which creates its own rules, logic and momentum.
"My stripes have form, they are objects. These rhythmic bands of colour are the concentrated accumulation of many elements of visual experience of life outside in the open" Paul Kessling
* Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 - 2005) was one the most innovative and irreverent artists of the 20th Century. Considered the godfather of Pop Art, his collages, sculptures and prints challenged artistic convention.
*Paul Kessling is associated with the Modern Artists Gallery, Oxfordshire,
Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Cube Gallery, London.
Claussones 90 x 158cm (including frame) Oil on Aluminium
Available to view in gallery.
Poitiers - Oil on aluminium 41 x 71cm
Veronese 92cm x 154cm Oil on Board
Signal Framed 144cm x 108cm Oil on Board
Material Earth 105x105cm oil on aluminium
Involucra 121 x 121cm oil on aluminiun
Private Road - Private Collection
Agricola Blue 90 x 137cm Oil on board
Radius - Private collection
98 x 137 cm framed and glazed - oil on dibond - aluminium
Twelve Nines - 122x92cm
Mixed media on board Framed and Glazed
Sophist Light
136 x 106cm Framed Oil on dibond-aluminium
BARCELONA - Private collection
Private Collection Oil on Aluminium 120 x 90cm
Paul Kessling /Archive
The Ridgeway Near West Hendred - Private Collection
Oil on linen 96 x 142 cm
Paul Kessling Land Rover Studio on the Ridgeway Landscape
Modern Artists Gallery - Paul Kessling Exhibition - Archive
Signal - P.O.A.
Oil on board 144 x 108 cm Framed
Paul Kessling Biblical Weather
Modern Artists Gallery Exhibition 2009
Straw Talking
Paul Kessling 2012 - Private collection
Paul Kessling Exhibition Modern Artists Gallery Above & Above
Paul Kessling Archive Poster 2014
Exhibition THEA at Modern Artists Gallery 2014
Paul Kessling Ridgeway Private Collection
Paul Kessling Modern Artists Gallery
