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Winter Open Studios: Artists to Keep Your Eyes On

Paul Norwood creates powerful figurative work using bold graphic elements…

FINE MAGAZINE

New and Improved. Anna Girimonte profiles emerging artist Paul Norwood

Norwood explores themes of individual and social conciousness…creating different layers of reality within one scene

CATALOGUE OF ANTIQUES AND FINE ART

Julie Eldred, Fine Art Editor

Norwood’s work represents a continuum of 20th century urban realists–New York’s Ashcan School artists like Robert Henri and the quintessential American realist Edward Hopper.

VINEYARD GAZZETTE

Painter Paul Norwood’s new work aims to freeze frame the beach

Norwood’s paintings, composed of slabs of color interlocking over bright backgrounds of sand and sky are vehicles for abstract forms. The subject matter is less important than the energetic manner in which the scene is broken down