Page 11 - 3D Art in a Whole New Light_ Paul McCloskey _ The Art Elephant

As with any other artist out there, we just had to ask Paul what inspired him to create art in the first place
– what drives him – which artists did he look up to as he eventually found his own style. “Well, it’s always
been art for as long as I can remember, it’s in me; it’s something I have to do,” he says.

Looking back, he recalls a few artists that top his list. “I remember visiting the National Gallery in Dublin
and coming across the work of the Irish painter Jack Yeats, full of expression and emotion,” he says. “I also
love the work of William Turner the British Romantic painter especially the way he could capture the
vastness of landscape in tiny works, Mark Rothko although entirely abstract captures a very deep
spirituality in his works in particular the Chapel series.”

From looking at galleries back then to now presenting his own work, Paul has gone a long way, as in the
photos above. Just recently, he had a solo exhibition in The Alley Arts Centre in Strabane, Northern Ireland
of the Omega series. “I hope to show them again next summer,” he enthusiastically mused.

“I have applied for a number of residencies and I’m hopeful of a positive response, I have begun a new
series of works, and a residency would give me undisturbed focus for a couple of weeks.” For now, here
are some of his Omega 3D in exhibition:

The Omega 3D in exhibition