Paul G. Russell is a writer, director and artist with a background in art history including an MA degree from the University of Toronto, historical research at the Courtauld Institute and portrait painting at Sir John Cass College, the last two institutions in London.
He has curated exhibitions and lectured and written extensively on the arts in a variety of publications, including The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Canadian Art, Toronto Life and Ornamentum.
On stage, he has produced such cabaret musicals as Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris and Dames at Sea and co-directed the original production of the musical Robin For Good.
For television, he wrote for the critically-praised series Images of Canada, produced the Emmy-nominated Untamed World and is Executive Producer of the multi-platformed series Reach for the Top.
He was Co-Producer of the 2007 award-winning feature film comedy Bolly Double.
His art work has been exhibited in Toronto and Hamilton. He is represented in Canadian collections including the Greenshields Foundation in Montreal and Victoria University in the University of Toronto.
Mr. Russell lives in Toronto and has a studio and art practice in Hamilton, Ontario.
Artist Statement
The title of the Exhibition is “Near and Far”…
The ‘Near’ can be personal, even intimate, introspective, always close at hand.
The ‘Far’ is mysterious, beyond reach, eternally remote.
Many of my works are paintings of dramatic skies full of clouds that can seem ‘near’ and ‘far’ at the same time - ‘near’ in their immediacy overhead and ‘far’ as they recede to the horizon.
Other works depict the ‘far’ horizon line…a ‘far’ that is impossible to reach, contrasted with the immediate middle ground or fore ground of the ‘near’, be it person, grassed hillocks or a floating canoe.
– Paul G. Russell











