Paul Bartlet

Paul Bartlett is a self-taught artist with a PhD in animal behaviour. He is an associate member of the Society of Wildlife Artists and was awarded the “Artist of the Year” prize by Birdwatch magazine and Swarovski optics at the their annual exhibition in 2006. Recently he was a category winner and overall runner-up in the David Shepherd Foundation “Wildlife Artist of the Year” competition in 2009, and a category winner in the BBC Wildlife Magazine Artist of the Year competition. His work and articles have featured in worldwide publications such as International Artist, Birds Illustrated, BBC Wildlife magazine and Wildscape magazine, as well as several books.

Variety and experimentation are the main emphasis of his art, allowing him to continually strive to find innovative techniques and styles in which to depict his subjects whilst retaining an element of realism.

Alternating between landscape and wildlife themes is also helpful for generating new ideas.

Many of Paul’s current watercolours employ a unique technique he has developed whereby the paper is scored with a scalpel and then ripped to reveal the unpainted surface beneath. This is useful for creating strong tonal contrast, or further washes can be applied to the ‘furry’ paper to give intriguing texture to the painting. Over the past year Paul has been concentrating on experimenting with collage and ‘mixed media’, combining pieces of magazine, paper and material together with pencil, watercolour, acrylic and pastels to create interesting effects and textures.

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