News and views

This page will feature occasional news on what I am currently working on, upcoming exhibitions, and links to reviews.

Upcoming exhibitions

Boundary Gallery, London

11 March to 24 April 2010

Paul Bloomer exhibition, Shetland Museum March/April 2009

Facing the sea

Da Gadderie. Shetland museum and Archives, Shetland.

Solo show, 21 March - 20 April 2009

This exhibition will be mostly Shetland inspired works; boldly coloured narrative pictures hung next to elemental painterly sea / sky / landscapes.

Review of this show by Peter Davis from the Shetland Times.

Review of my Spring 2009 museum exhibition by Jane Matthews which appeared on Shetland News website.

An artists response to Shetland windfarm proposals

Windfarm vision 1. Click for larger view.

I have been moved to produce a series of images in response to proposals for a very large wind farm in Shetland. These images are not meant to be literal rendition of the Viking Energy project but depicts the effects of living in the shadow of 150 giant wind turbines and their affect on the human psyche. What should ostensibly be a traditional Shetland crofting scene has become a nightmare scenario where animals and birds are being displaced and humans are gradually being driven mad.

Migration. Acrylic on canvas. 2008. 120 x 150 cm

See the wind farm series here.

Article in Black Country Bugle

20 September 2007

"Without leaving the country, you can’t get much further from the Black Country, literally or metaphorically, than the Shetland Islands, but that’s exactly where Pensnett-born artist Paul Bloomer took himself a few years ago, and despite, or maybe because of his remoteness, his career has blossomed.

There can’t be many Black Country folk living that far north, a hundred miles off the furthest coast of Scotland, and there aren’t many artists creating the kind of work Paul does. So with his work now being sold through a London Gallery, we at the Bugle thought it would be interesting to ask this artistic ex-pat to share with us his thoughts on his remote location, and his unique creations. Paul, a Bugle reader from way back, was happy to oblige When he left Pensnett. Read rest of Black Country Bugle Article here.
(article by Gavin Jones, © Black Country Bugle, 2007)

Thanks and credits

Paul with Crucifixion drawing and Suffering Servant painting

Web site design and coding from Kevin Learmonth at Business Support Solutions (UK) Limited

Jim Moncrief for allowing me to name a picture after his poem The Sea Like Scissors.

Most of the works in the New Exhibits section were photographed by Bill Fox, www.billyfoxphotography.com. Through time the other images he has photographed for me will be added to this site.

Thanks to Matthew Lawrence for the use of the photograph of me painting at Spiggie Beach.