Paul Liptrot

I create work that offers moments of sanctuary - quiet thresholds where people can pause, sense, and reconnect with themselves. My practice sits between scientific curiosity and poetic intuition, shaped by a desire to hold space for reflection, conversation, and the subtle act of noticing.

Materials are my collaborators. I’m drawn to substances that react, resist, or transform: plaster, clay, latex, ice, oil. Their behaviours reveal patterns and tensions that guide the work as much as I do. The first moments of contact - when colour blooms, chemicals shift, or structures begin to form - are where the work truly begins. I surrender control and let the material speak, learning its language through reaction, resistance, and the delicate balance between chaos and order.

My thinking is shaped by the natural world: geological rhythms, cosmic structures, and the unseen forces that shape how things fit together. These influences surface in the abstract forms I create - objects and images that feel both ancient and emergent, familiar and otherworldly.

As my practice has evolved, materials and processes have become vehicles for creating installations and experiences. I work intentionally with abstraction so that each viewer can encounter the work on their own terms. I’m fascinated by the moment someone senses something in the piece — something felt rather than seen and how that moment opens a conversation about perception, memory, and identity. Each person brings their own history, geography, and emotional landscape, and it is this diversity of response that completes the work.

Ultimately, my practice explores how materials, environments, and people meet. Through these encounters, I aim to create portals into stillness, curiosity, and connection; spaces where the inner and outer worlds briefly align