Paul Bloomer
This artist’s practice navigates the delicate fault lines between nature, culture, and spirituality, drawing emotional and aesthetic power from the contrasts of two landscapes: the industrial scars of England’s Black Country and the wild, luminous terrains of Shetland.
Paul Bloomer was born and bought up in the industrial Black Country of England. He studied painting at post graduate level at the Royal Academy Schools in London and in 1997 moved to the Shetland Isles, entranced by the ever changing light, and he set up his studio.
Bloomer’s work explores themes such as freedom, growth and rebirth in a myriad of colours and shapes, featuring landscapes, birds, and sunsets. He paints predominately from the Shetland Isles’ landscape, and a large proportion created outside, which he describes as being a battle, to look and feel through the changing colours and shapes. The sheer force of the elements translates into his paintings in a way that would be impossible to replicate in the relative comfort of the studio.
Bloomer lives and works in Shetland.
‘‘I am something of a hybrid of an artist, part urban part rural, and my art reflects this alliance. I am interested in the harmonies and tensions between the world of nature and the world of man.”
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