Paul Doran was born in Gorey, Co. Wexford in 1972 and he studied a Masters in Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design in 2001. Doran is one of Ireland's finest painters and he celebrates the medium of paint itself. Working with abstract compositions of thick, layered paint, he creates highly textured works of a compelling nature. In his paintings Doran wishes to emphasize the handmade element; whereby organic structures can be assembled together by the human hand in a multitude of ways resulting in something that appears complete but reveals itself to be fluid. The lack of something stable and ‘absolute’ makes Doran’s paintings an unmistakable contemporary experience.