Bastard Blue

VOLTA NEW YORK
125 West 18th Street
May 17-21, 2023.

My work is imperfect.
My work is flawed.
But so am I...

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Greenane Island, near Kenmare 10
80 x 60 cm

A Place, on this Earth.

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Desirous of everything at the same time
174 x 135 cms

The Infinite Possibilities of the Space Between

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View fullsize #NewYork is now Blue. Bastard Blue. 'Bastard Blue' @voltaartfairs C'est fin aujourd'hui 💪 @stonestepgallery @friezeofficial
View fullsize my 'wing woman' in New York with me got her nails 'Bastard Blued' for @voltaartfairs opening tomorrow night. #gee #bastardblue #VOLTANY
View fullsize "the saturation of moonlight" (Bastard Blue series) 150x120 cms debuting with @stonestepgallery at @voltaartfairs May 17-21 @metropavilion New York the dark, wild beautiful beautiful light of the land, sea and sky between the Iveragh and
View fullsize When you keep 'abstracting' the image you can uncover the movement in the air. I wonder if it's different dampness / temperatures in the firmament. It's as if i was painting with watered down thinned paints that flowed with gravity on a canvas. Or ma
View fullsize my dublin. made me want a Guinness. #poolbeg #poolbegchimneys #dublin #lovedublin #guinness #cloud #ireland #photography #photographoftheday #blackrock #ringsend #land #sea #sky #gee
View fullsize at the end I just sat there staring at it for a few hours. And I knew I was done. And I could go. Let go. #dusk #endofday #art #painting #contemporaryart #modernart #modernism #modernist #nyartscene #expressionism #irishart #irishartist #colour #pi
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View fullsize @irish_examinerusa @voltaartfairs @hayworth.co @friezenewyork @irishartscenter @kenmare.ie @stonestepgallery #VOLTANY #VoltaNewYork #irishartist #irishart #exoressionism #bastardblue #art #painting #modernism #voltaartfair #kenmare #kerry #templenoe
View fullsize dublin bay. #staring #warm #rain #storm #evening #irishart #expressionism #photography #dublin #livedublin #sky #air #clouds #land #sea #firmament #gee
View fullsize Fluo. #fluo #red #fluored #pigments #landseasky #art #painting #modernism #expressionism #andtraction #contemporaryart #endofday #burning #artcollectors #irishartist #gee #colour #kenmare #dublin #ireland #modernist
View fullsize https://m.facebook.com/IrishArtsCenter/videos/from-our-friends-stone-step-gallery-irish-artist-paul-hughes-is-set-to-debut-his/466629182313242/ #IrishArtsCenter #IAC #voltaartfair2023 #VOLTANY #NYartscene #irishartist #irishart #kenmare #kerry #tem
View fullsize Green. 7/8 weeks developing this piece. I was searching for the 'movement' in all the spaces between. #green #art #painting #modernism #expressionism #impressionism #abstraction #colour #NYartscene #NewYork #artexhibitions #contemporaryart #land #se
View fullsize 'La Rondine' (the bird, a swallow, that flies towards the sun). #contemporaryart #painting #art #puccini #dawn #dusk #red #orange #land #sea #sky #air #abstraction #impressionism #rouge #modernism #modernist #contemporain #irishart #gee #larondine
View fullsize "Sleepwalking" 120x100 cms (Bastard Blue series) Debuting at Volta Art Fairs, New York May 17-21. #art #painting #exhibitions #artexhibitions #VOLTANY #irishartist #bastardblue #blue #contemporaryart #modernism #expressionism #daydreamin
View fullsize When the end of day light on Kenmare river places your head on its lap and softly strokes it, whispering into your ear, "it's ok Paul, it's ok". and like the moment, a fleeting thing, that will be gone tomorrow, this painting will probabl
View fullsize https://open.spotify.com/episode/1WQ34dasT25t2dunKZymTM?si=CdkE2K4cR6Gyb7TAxvvH8A ooooops. #art #painting #journey #irishart #irishartist #VOLTANY #VoltaNewYork #contemporaryart #modernism #life #bastardblue #gee #keepdoing #kenmare #dublin #irela
View fullsize Blood. When it pumps it means you are alive. Lifeblood. full of oxygen and haemoglobin and DNA and all that fucking good stuff that keeps you alive. Blood. It's like your unique biographer. from your heart to every morsel of your body, around your
View fullsize one of my paintings developed 'stigmata's' overnight, and created a second painting on the wall. I always say everything i have goes into every painting. blood, sweat and tears. sometimes some of that comes out of it's own accord. "In a crucifi
View fullsize 4 hours in. A week or so to go I reckon. Headache started. #red #rouge #headache #expressionism #earlydays #mondaymorning #art #painting #studio #abstraction #irishart #irishartist #physicality #baselayers #coffeebreak #modernism