Originally from Sheffield, Paul met his wife when she was a passenger on the route he worked on.<\/p>\n
The son of two artists himself, Paul and his family now live in Knaresborough.<\/p>\n
He said taking up painting during Covid helped him with the anxiety he was experiencing.<\/p>\n
“I picked up a brush and I realised that hours had gone by without thinking of anything because I was just painting.<\/p>\n
“I put it on Facebook as ‘this is my project’ and somebody said ‘how much?'”<\/p>\n
Paul’s new career also saw him commissioned to paint a work for the King in 2023.<\/p>\n
“A gentleman asked to meet me in Harrogate and he said ‘I want to commission you to paint a picture for my friend whose 75th birthday is coming up’.”<\/p>\n
Paul said the man had attended school with the then Prince Charles and had requested an image of a tree planted by him in Harrogate, which was now in full bloom.<\/p>\n
He said the picture was duly “sent down to Clarence House” and he received a letter confirming its arrival and that he would receive another letter later.<\/p>\n
“So maybe I’ll be going down there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Originally from Sheffield, Paul met his wife when she was a passenger on the route he worked on.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-438039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}