A Maid for Paint

In his first solo exhibition with Poppy Sebire, Paul Housley demonstrates his subservience to the process and materiality of painting. A Maid for Paint presents a series of portraits and still lifes which frequently blur genres, more concerned as they are with the physicality of the medium than the fixity of the subject. Primarily oils on canvas, the works are at once mottled and vibrant, totemic and irreverent.