Self-portrait with jam jar, Oil on Canvas

Paul Wuensche completed his MFA at the New York Academy of Art in 1999. Exhibitions include the BP Portrait Awards, The Discerning Eye and the Royal Society of Portrait painters, amongst many others.

He paints solely from life. Having started at an early age the act of painting is instinctive and visceral. Although a representational painter, he is motivated by form and colour almost in an abstract sense: there is no conscious narrative - the objects and people he paints tell their own story. He is very much concerned with getting rid of the 'author', being a vehicle for what he sees. The visual world is vivid and exciting enough in itself. The artist's role is to be truthful and at most to magnify. Nothing must be stylized. Anything can be the subject-matter, though in still life he has a preference for the organic sensuality of fruit and plants. Often light itself is the subject, and again his concern is a kind of sensuality - the way light caresses and plays with form.

Solo exhibitions 
2009 9 Langton Street gallery
2005St Johns College, Cambridge
2003
Untitled Gallery, Hampstead, London
Group exhibitions
2008 Lacy Road Gallery, Putney
2007 Storage Art, Denbigh Street, London
2004Artspace, Navestock, Essex
2003BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery
2003Wimbledon Art Studios, Summer Open studios
2001

The Discerning Eye 2001, work selected by Sir Roy Strong

Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall galleries

Laing Landscape Exhibition, Mall galleries

1999
The Studio Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia
Training/experience
1999Michael Aviano Academy, New York
1998MFA cum laude, Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art
1995BA First Class Honours in Modern Languages, Cambridge University