Paul has been tutoring part-time at the Whitecliff College of Art in Auckland for the last seven years while working on portraiture, commercial and personal work. He has had an extensive career in illustration working in several of the top Auckland advertising agencies in the seventies and early eighties. He has completed a variety of significant private commissions including all of the America's Cup Skippers. His portraits have been regularly featured in the New Zealand Portrait Awards (recentlt renamed the Adam Portaiture Awards) and in 2004 he was comissioned to design and illustrate siz stamps and two first day cover motifs for the Christmas Stamps for NZ Post.
Paul is a passionate about painting the portrait incorporating a loose and free style as he attempts to capture the essence of a particularly striking pose. He teaches life drawing and figure studies and this allows him the ability to constantly perfect his own technique.