KY1 1JH

Paul owns multiple businesses. One of them is Clarke & McDevitt. He runs it together with a friend who he met at the art academy: Declan Clarke. They build exhibitions together, for which they mostly use artworks by young and upcoming artists. He also runs a record company called Infinite Greyscale. It’s a record company that supports music from young and unknown musicians. They only make long playing records on vinyl.

Because he owns a record company Paul has his thoughts on making music. According to him it’s important that musicians and artist are able to create things in total freedom. They should’t have money and success on their minds, he thinks. Paul calls the endresults ‘half music, half art’. Musicians are given the opportunity to make experimental music. So no perfectly composed songs, mostly ‘sound experiments’. Paul creates the album covers himself, using a risograph machine. This is a machine that can make large copies and prints.

seen windows painted shut? It inspired Paul to make this painting.

What do you see in this painting? Water? Like the waves of the see or a waterfall? Maybe this paitings reminds you of a science fiction movie? Because what you see doesn’t seem real.

This painting is an arwork from a series that Paul created in 2014. In Scotland and North-England Paul saw shop windows painted in white. He photographed those windows. They were windows of closed shops. The different kinds of paper on the painting are the remains of torned up posters.

This artwork is about the abundance off stuff, food and drinks. There is so much to buy these days. The painting is also about closing shops in different city centres. Those shops are closing because of economic crises, but also because of online shops. With KYJ 1JH Paul captures a time period in which there are many changes in consuming, buying, using and food.

When Paul saw those windows he really liked the picturesque movements in the white paint. It’s usually a quick process. That makes it spontaneous. There is no plan beforehand, it’s more about intuition.