Paul Talbot-Greaves RI
Paul Talbot-Greaves is an internationally recognised artist who specialises in watercolour, oil and acrylic painting. Many of his landscape subjects are sought amongst the moors and hills of his native West Yorkshire. He is a member of The Royal Institute of Painters In Watercolours and is the President of The Halifax Art Society. His work has won multiple awards including Best in Show, Holmfirth Art week, first prize, Broadway Arts Festival Exhibition, Three times The Artist Award winner, The Canson Award, The St Cuthbert’s Mill Award, and The Artist Purchase Prize in The Artist and Leisure Painter national exhibitions. He regularly exhibits with the RI, London, where he won the Chaoshan watercolour award in 2022.
A frequent writer for The Artist magazine, he also has four practical art books published - Watercolour for starters (D&C - 2004), 30 Minute Landscapes (Walter Foster, USA - 2008), 30 Minute Landscapes in Watercolour (Harper Collins - 2009) and Landscapes in Watercolour (Crowood Press - 2009). Other books he has contributed towards are Watercolour layer-by-layer (Walter Foster, USA), 101 Top techniques (D&C), Complete Watercolour (Quarto Press), The encyclopaedia of watercolour techniques (Search Press).
He has been teaching and demonstrating painting for thirty years.
'I have been working full time as an artist for 30 years. My work can be described as representational in an impressionistic style, but I don’t seek to paint popular views or chase narrative within my work. Instead, I look for alternative views of the landscape, arranging striking compositions, playing dark against light, and introducing you to pattern and shadow. I also aim to connect with my audience on an emotional level, often drawing attention to elements of a subject that go unnoticed. Most of my work is sourced from the Yorkshire hills where I live. I work on site with sketches and photographs, turning them into paintings back in the studio. I also work plein air when time and weather allow. I’m quite a spontaneous and energetic painter, preferring to start and finish a painting in one session. I work mostly in watercolour but also enjoy the freedom of acrylic, which I combine approaches from both watercolour and oil techniques.'
