Paul Cumes Fine Art Medium: Oil paintings on canvas, stone and ceramics Artist Statement: Primarily self-taught, Paul has also studied painting and drawing at the Art Student's League of Manhattan, NYC. As a professional, award winning plein-air painter, Paul is known for his energetic and original works that have a style all their own.

Paul's work is created with a contemporary freshness and spirit. His art follows from the same philosophy that embraces Matisse's tenet of "exactitude is not truth", and Picasso's idea that paintings are not meant to decorate your apartment, instead they are vital and indispensable ways of revealing the unknown. Of course if you want to buy one to decorate your apartment that is ok too.

Paul exhibits at the Santa Barbara Arts & Crafts Show every Sunday in Santa Barbara, CA.