Paul Windridge

Artist, moving image and music maker, writer and photographer.

Paul Windridge is a multidisciplinary artist specialising in painting, moving image, digital art, music, and writing, who interprets memories, observations and emotions. He specialises in creating immersive works that don’t just focus on the experience of a moment and how it felt, but he explores the enduring psychological impact and the emotional residue that remains.

• After graduating from Liverpool and Nottingham Art Colleges, he spent 20 years as a full-time freelance artist with solo exhibitions at prestigious venues like The Barbican Centre, The Mermaid Theatre, London, The Royal Exchange, Manchester and The Royal Philharmonic, Liverpool.
• With the advent of digital technology, he co-founded a design company and collaborated with major brands like Adobe, Red or Dead, Motionhouse dance, EMI and MUTE Records.
• His digital moving image work is known for the atmospheric distortion of time and space, creating multi-dimensional filmic universes by taking reality and then turning it into something completely different. The videos and moving image pieces have been screened at international festivals, including New York, Paris, Berlin and Zurich, as well as in special events at major institutions like Tate Britain and the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• He returned to oil painting in 2019, drawing inspiration from his art school roots for series such as “The Apollo 11 Launch” and “Interactions”.
• Since moving to the Isle of Wight in 2007, he has also focused heavily on the natural world with videos of the sea and shoreline and particularly his documentation of wild-living foxes in his "Fox Tales books, paintings and video stories on his YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@FoxTales-PW

• He also continues to curate and present innovative short film events on the island and is an active representative of the Open Studios community.