SELECTED WORKS
Lost in, 2018
Acrylic, plaster and mortar on canvas
67 x 71 x 2.5 in (170 x 180 x 6 cm)
Chicago Series No. 7, 2017
Acrylic, plaster and mortar on canvas
56 x 71.5 x 2.4 in (142 x 182 x 6 cm)
Chicago Series No. 4, 2017
Acrylic, plaster and mortar on canvas
56.5 x 60 x 2.4 in (144 x 152 x 6 cm)
The Battle Within, 2018
Acrylic, plaster and aluminium on canvas in six pieces
32 x 84 x 3.5 in (81 x 213 x 8 cm)
Los Feliz Collection No. 3, 2017
Acrylic, plaster and mortar on canvas
35 x 56 x 1.5 in (89 x 142 x 4 cm)
Los Feliz Collection No. 4, 2017
Acrylic, plaster and mortar on canvas
60 x 32 x 2.4 in (152 x 81 x 6 cm)
Los Feliz Collection No. 5, 2017
Acrylic, plaster and mortar on canvas
48 x 80 x 2.5 in (122 x 203 x 6 cm)
Los Feliz Collection No. 6, 2017
Acrylic, canvas, plaster and mortar on canvas
48 x 84 x 2.5 in (122 x 213 x 6 cm)
Los Feliz Collection No. 7, 2017
Acrylic, canvas, plaster and mortar on canvas
70 x 70 x 2.5 in (178 x 178 x 6 cm)
Paris Series No. 2, 2016
Acrylic, plaster, mortar and pigment on canvas
54 x 41.7 x 2.4 in (137 x 106 x 6 cm)
Paris Series No. 3, 2016
Acrylic, plaster, mortar and textile on canvas
71 x 67 x 2.4 in (180 x 170 x 6 cm)
Paris Series No. 4, 2016
Acrylic, plaster and mortar on canvas
54 x 41.7 x 2.4 in (137 x 106 x 6 cm)
Paris Series No. 5, 2016
Acrylic, plaster, mortar, textile and pigment on canvas
71 x 67 x 2.4 in (180 x 170 x 6 cm)
Paris Series No. 1, 2016
Acrylic, plaster, mortar, textile and pigment on canvas
71 x 67 x 2.4 in (180 x 170 x 6 cm)
Paris Series No. 6, 2016
Acrylic, plaster, mortar and textile on canvas
54 x 41.7 x 2.4 in (137 x 106 x 6 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 9, 2016
Acrylic, plaster, mortar and textile on canvas
71 x 67 x 2.4 in (180 x 170 x 6 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 6, 2016
Acrylic, plaster, mortar and textile on canvas
54 x 33 x 2.4 in (137 x 84 x 6 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 8, 2016
Acrylic, plaster, mortar and textile on canvas
50 x 42.5 x 1.5 in (127 x 108 x 3.8 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 3, 2016
Acrylic, plaster, mortar and textile on canvas
71 x 67 x 2.4 in (180 x 170 x 6 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 2, 2016
Acrylic, plaster, mortar on canvas
50 x 42.5 x 1.5 in (127 x 108 x 3.8 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 4, 2016
Acrylic, plaster, mortar and textile on canvas
71 x 67 x 2.4 in (180 x 170 x 6 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 7, 2016
Acrylic, plaster and mortar on canvas
54 x 41.7 x 2.4 in (137 x 106 x 6 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 11, 2016
Acrylic, plaster, mortar and textile on canvas
54 x 41.7 x 2.4 in (137 x 106 x 6 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 13, 2016
Acrylic and plaster on canvas
60 x 32 x 2.5 in (152.5 x 81 x 6 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 18, 2017
Acrylic and plaster on canvas
60 x 35 x 2.5 in (152.5 x 89 x 6 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 20, 2017
Acrylic and plaster on canvas
72 x 36 x 2.5 in (183 x 91 x 6 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 12, 2016
Acrylic and plaster on canvas in three pieces
24 x 24 x 1.5 in (61 x 61 x 3.8 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 17, 2016
Acrylic and plaster on canvas
24 x 18 x 1.5 in (61 x 46 x 3.8 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 14, 2016
Acrylic, canvas, plaster and mortar on canvas
80 x 36 x 2.5 in (203 x 91 x 6 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 11, 2016
Acrylic, canvas, plaster and mortar on canvas
80 x 36 x 2.5 in (203 x 91 x 6 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 16, 2016
Acrylic, canvas, plaster, wood and mortar on canvas
48 x 36 x 1.5 in (122 x 91.5 x 3.8 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 15, 2016
Acrylic, canvas, plaster, wood and mortar on canvas
36 x 48 x 1.5 in (91.5 x 122 x 3.8 cm)
Los Angeles Series No. 19, 2017
Acrylic, canvas, plaster, wood and mortar on canvas
50.5 x 43 x 2 in (128 x 109 x 3.8 cm)
ABOUT
Paul Jacob Bashour is an abstract painter based in Los Angeles and has exhibited his works in Paris, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, attracting the attention of collectors, designers and art enthusiasts around the world.
Paul began exploring painting, drawing and sculpture at an early age. He grew up in an artistic household, which moved from the midwest to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, home of illustrator Norman Rockwell, near the studio of sculptor Daniel Chester French, Chesterwood. Inspired by these creative personalities and while apprenticing with local artists, his creative talents continued to grow within the Berkshires’ artistic atmosphere.
In 1999, after visiting New York City, Paul became instantly hooked by the city’s architecture, culture, art and music scenes, and eventually moved there. During these years in New York, he started a painting company to support his art, he also taught himself how to plaster and tile as well. This work influenced his artistic technique and his evolution toward abstraction, and it contributed to his unique style of using tools and materials that were then at hand, like plaster, mortar, a trowel, drop cloth and gallons of acrylic paint.
The past few years Paul stepped away from the paint brush and moved to a method using a technique with a trowel and his hands. Resonating with past abstract expressionist painters, Paul glides his trowel through heaps of acrylic paint, adding and mixing in plaster, mortar, metal, scraps of leftover canvas and other materials and colors. Between these layers, his hands throw in layer upon layer of paint, at times letting the paint drip or flick from his fingers into the layers created. Paul paints with his emotions. He starts with having an idea of what he wants to create, but lets his emotions take over to control the way the paint and the other materials are applied.
“Music is an essential part of the process. At times I find my hand conducting an orchestra with paint and raw materials. When I catch myself getting lost in the work and finding a sense of balance, I stop, walk away and allow nature to take over. In time, the paint stretches and cracks as it dries, leaving a work of mountains and ridges giving the look of an eroded, vast landscape or a universe or where ever your mind lets you get lost in. The most exciting part of being an artist for me is when a collector tells me a story of becoming lost in one of my paintings. I build my own frames and stretch my own canvas because when I step up to paint, I find I have put so much effort into the process already that there is a deep respect and connection for the canvas as I begin to paint.”
Paul Jacob Bashour now lives and works in Los Angeles and continues to explore and create in the visual arts.
“Stay hungry, stay foolish”
“The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself”
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind”