The Boundary Gallery is delighted and proud to present a second one-man exhibition featuring Paul Bloomer. His first show at the Boundary Gallery in 2007 won great critical acclaim, establishing him as an artist of great talent. rooted in a sensibility of rare integrity and resolute exploratory power. (Philip Vann)

Born in the Black Country in 1966, Bloomer left school at 15 to work in the same factory as his mother did. After 4 years he 'suddenly discovered a love of colour and drawing and against his family's wishes, decided to take an elementary art course, 'where I learnt to draw through sheer determination. I would get up at six and draw until ten o'clock at night every day.' He got his BA in Fine Art at Nottingham Polytechnic in 1991.

The same year he was accepted at the Royal Academy Schools on the strength of his amazing charcoal drawings. He received the Postgraduate Diploma from the R.A. in 1994 where he also won the Joseph Webber Award as the Most Outstanding Student. For the last 13 years he has lived in the Shetland Islands.