Saatchi Art is pleased to offer the drawing, "Crazy Diamond," by Paul Howe, available for purchase at $565 USD. Original Drawing: Charcoal on Cardboard.!
ARTIST INTERVIEW: Paul West
I am a landscape painter and charcoal artist.
Born in Dorset, I studied graphic design in London, choosing a course with an emphasis on art history and with ‘mark making’ (life drawing, etching, screen printing and photography).
Crazy world, on a personal level losing my sister Maggie and my dad, a major move out of London, the trauma and the beating of a critical.
Although choosing graphic design as my career, since college days I always carried sketch books, filling them with sketches and paintings. Around 2012, it felt a like natural progression to focus more on art - as a graphic designer, I co-founded a design agency which always felt more ‘indie’ than being employed in a large corporate agency, and as a solo artist I’d like to think I’m furthering that independent way of working.
Growing up in Dorset I was immersed in the countryside, running wild in the woods behind our house, staying up all night with friends nature watching badgers and scaring the hell out of each other with “beast in woods” stories by torchlight.
Other times I’d just go out alone with my do