Paul Hedley was born in 1947 and brought up in Chatham, Kent. His relaxed style combines incisive observation and capable draughtsmanship, and he has produced these soft, subtle, almost sensuous paintings with a deft skill that must escalate him into one of the elite band of figurative artists in England today. Paul and his artist wife, the artist Dianne Flynn lived and worked in Normandy from 1989 to 1997. but are now living in Dorset. Paul has been a full-time artist since 1989.
1966-68 Medway College of Art
1967 Winner in the Camden Painting Competition
1968 - 71 Maidstone College of Art (awarded Diploma in Art and Design)
1971 David Murray Landscape Scholarship
1976 Prizewinner in the Camden Painting Competition
2001 First prize at the Southwest Academy of Arts
SELECTED ONE-MAN & GROUP SHOWS INCLUDE:
The Lockshop, Camden Lock, London Gallery 273, Queen Mary College, London
Fairfield Halls, Croydon Axis Gallery, Brighton
Fraser Carver Gallery, Thames Ditton John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold
Turrets Gallery, Barnet Francis Iles Gallery, Rochester
Blackheath Gallery, London Edwin Pollard Gallery, London
Colin Jellicoe Gallery, Manchester Priory Gallery, Cheltenham & Broadway
Nevill Gallery, Canterbury Thompson’s Gallery, Aldeburgh
Oakham Gallery, London
Galerie Chaye, Honfleur
MIXED EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE:
Royal Society of British Artists New English Art Club
Hampstead Artist’ Council Royal Institute of Oil Painters
Southwest Academy of Arts Camden Arts Centre
Datchet Gallery, Datchet Bath Contemporary Arts Fair
Liberty’s Art Gallery, London Focus Gallery, Nottingham
Barry Keene Gallery, Henley-on-Thames Cooper Fine Arts, London
Bourne Gallery, Reigate The Marine House, Beer
Clifton Gallery, Bristol W H Patterson, London
Walker Galleries, Harrogate & Honiton Wren Gallery, Burford
Rainer Joniskeit Gallery, Stuttgart Thompson’s Gallery, Aldeburgh
Paul’s work is in the collections of the London borough of Camden, Queen Mary College Industrial Research Unit and many corporate and private collections in Britain and abroad.
