He studied Art and Aesthetics at The Cardiff Metropolitan University (formerly The Cardiff Institute of Higher Education). The College of Charleston, South Carolina (he worked under Professor Michael Tyzack and as studio assistant to David Novros). He completed an Master of Arts in Fine Art at Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent.
In 1995 he worked for a year in a studio in New York City. Returning to London in 1996, he worked at a Barbican Arts Trust studio, he was then awarded a ‘Fire Station’ residency with Acme Studios, London. From 2001 he worked from a studio at Trinity Buoy Wharf.
I do not set out to make a ‘picture’ of a tree, instead I want to explore the colour, line, shape and light of a tree.
I like to remove myself from a subject in a visual sense and direct observation because when I live with a subject day after day, the ‘realness’ of the subject remains. I can take the abstract qualities as far as I like in any given subject, but if I maintain the ‘realness’ through re-drawing each time I am in front of it, the subconscious ‘real’ is always there.
Paine lectures at The National Gallery and The Art Academy, London. Include:
Boite Postale Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, 1996;
The Discerning Eye, Mall Gallery 2000;
Docklands Landscapes, Dash Gallery, Tower Hamlets 2002;
Il Tempo Rivelato, Archaeological Museum, Mondragone, Italy 2010;
London & Londoners, Mayor’ General’ s Office, City Hall, London 2010;
Circled Seasons, and Un Giorno Ancora (Recent Italian Paintings), Menier Gallery 2008 and 2011;
Recent Paintings, Gallery 27, Cork Street 2013.
