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art with ease and insight. he is a genius. these are a few of my

perspectives of that genius.

Paul paints 8 to 10 hours every day. If people are watching in a public

place; like his gallery, that’s fine with him. he is supremely confident

and goes about the business of creation. If someone interrupts to ask

a question he is always poised, with a friendly insightful response;

but he keeps painting. ten-hour stretches are not uncommon.

I remember reading about a famous canadian artist who couldn’t

take the pressure of having to produce 18 paintings a year for his

gallery; Paul is prolific and creates new works daily. he says a good

artist should be able to paint fast. the great ones do. Gainsborough,

like Paul, rarely went over the same brush stroke twice.

at an Ygartua show, about 2 years ago, I was approached by an

architect who commented that the artist was a genius. I asked how

so? he said, ‘look at all these paintings (there were dozens) there

YGartua IS a GEnIuS bY MIchaEL SILVErbrookE /coLLEctor (2008)

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