Paul Sharrock
My training as an historic buildings architect has fostered an inquisitiveness about the stories buildings, and places encapsulate in the very fabric we see every day.
Our built environment is a mine of information about cultural drivers and change. It is a repository of evidence including destruction and the deliberate wiping away of the past. It is continuously undergoing loss and erosion of not only the physical but also of meaning.
But the evidence is there, waiting to be exposed and re-interpreted.
Lithograph 594 x840 mm
My current works are centred around a visit to Venice during the recent appaling floods where I sketched in my wellies, as the floodwaters ebbed and flowed over the priceless fabric of that magical city.
After Ruskin 
Underwater 
Looking Afresh 
Floor Fragment 
Ca D’Oro 
Cart Gate 
Ducal Palace 
Erosion II 
Ca D’Oro II 
Venice Reflections 
Carlo Scarpa Flooded
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Email me: mailto:pgs@paulsharrock.com
The artist’s subject matter is of urgent importance as Venice has become a touchstone of the environmental problems we need to address today. The sensitive use of colour and delicate, evanescent drawing of reflections evoke the fragility of the built environment. Well done!