About

A Playground in the Factory, is Housley's first exhibition in Sheffield for over 20 years. Deep in the formalities of oil paint, Paul's work refracts his world and those phenomena that catch his eye. His expressive canvases capture low-key subject matter on a humble scale – most recently, the contents of his studio.

"Characters, places and memories inhabit the studio, it’s a place of constant flux. Ideas and motifs, new possibilities and dead ends, the studio contains them all, it’s simply a race against the clock to unearth as many as I can. 

I was good at two things at school, …