Snoopy Lies Down. Wash and ink 25 x 40 cm. 2008
Paul Housley
Paul’s work plays around with the notions of traditional genres. It exists somewhere between portraiture and still life. Paul works from a collection of objects gathered over a period of time. These objects/figures are usually placed in the traditional portrait format thus merging and confusing the two genres. Paul tries to convey something of the human condition with the dumb substitute figures, with a kind of melancholic tension arising from these inanimate objects’ returned gaze demanding some kind of recognition of life. Recently, he has started making his own figures and objects to work from.
