PAUL SCOFIELD . . . a brief biography: 

     Paul Scofield was born in San Francisco in 1953, and began studying and practicing art in high school. He continued his studies of art at Bay Area colleges, as well as at schools in Boston, while he lived there for two years. Since 1975, he has been drawing portraits, accepting commissions for paintings and murals, along with working in acrylics and oils on canvas.

     After visiting many regions of this country, he traveled to Brazil, Argentina, France, England, Italy, Spain, the Caribbean and Mexico. He has been intrigued by how each country’s landscape and climate has influenced the development of its culture. Each culture reveals itself as a different lens through which to see the human condition. After returning home, the places and situations he experienced have generated fresh ideas and artworks–as well as having given him fresh perspectives on the place where he lives.

      Paul works mostly within two genres of painting. A style of his own: which blends representational landscapes with a quiet surrealism, mixing figurative and intangible elements. And the plein air landscapes and seascapes–which have been a passion of his for 25 years, and have been his main focus in the last three years.

     Currently, Mr. Scofield is working on an ongoing series of plein air canvasses of the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Monterey region, celebrating the wealth of natural beauty in these locations. He also continues with his series of surrealistic and dream-oriented paintings. He resides in San Francisco with his wife, Tereza,nephew, Eric; and enjoys hiking, archery, bodysurfing, photographing birds and writing.