Check out Bond Paul’s Artwork

Today we’d like to introduce you to Bond Paul.

Bond, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
As a child, I had an unusual artistic gift. I could essentially duplicate through drawings anything I was looking at but often did so in reverse without realizing. I was born in 1964 in Guadalajara Mexico but have lived in the US and primarily in Southern California for most of my life. I was fascinated with fantasy and science fiction novels, and I believe this set the tone for the fantastic art I create. Plus it allowed me to develop my imagination through the need to imagine worlds only read about in books. I studied fine art in various colleges in San Diego but ultimately graduated with a Graphic Design degree from the La Jolla Academy of Advertising Arts.

I painted off and on during the subsequent 20 years that I had a freelance graphics, web, and book design agency. My art has always been in the magic realism/surrealism genre as I am fascinated with the merging of our dream life and reality. There were times when I did other things such as caretaker of a 300 acre Colorado ranch and investment and remodeling historic adobe homes in Santa Fe, NM.

However, it wasn’t until about ten years when I met my now wife that I made a move back to my fine art. She saw some of my paintings locked in a closet and encouraged and supported me in further developing my style and technique and building an art business. I am now a full-time professional artist living in San Clemente, CA.

We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
I paint in a magic realism style in oils on either canvas or panel. My paintings are deeply allegorical and symbolic. They are almost always based in a “real” setting with dreamlike and fantastic elements going on. They are my attempt at recreating the dream state. Where everything is possible, and reality is malleable and fluid.

Having a deep spiritual practice and basis in metaphysics, it is my wish that viewers begin to see their own lives in a new way – as containing magic and unlikely delights, As unlimited in possibilities. It is also my wish to simply lighten people’s hearts.

As I also write prose and poetry, each of my works is accompanied by either a poem or narrative giving a deeper understanding of that piece’s symbolic meaning.

Artists face many challenges, but what do you feel is the most pressing among them?
Exposure. I have the good fortune to have acquired a collector base through my art festival exhibits and now have buyers waiting for new works.

Do you have any events or exhibitions coming up? Where would one go to see more of your work? How can people support you and your artwork?
I exhibit in San Diego each June at the San Diego Festival of Arts. I also show in Laguna Beach at the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts all of July and August.

Originals, reproductions and other products including a coffee table art book are available via my website at www.paulbondart.com.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.paulbondart.com
• Phone: 949-573-3101
• Email: paul@paulbondart.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/paulbondfineart
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/PaulBondFineArt
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/PaulBondFineArt

Image Credit:
All artwork by and copyright of Paul Bond.

Getting in touch: SDVoyager is built on recommendations from the community; it’s how we uncover hidden gems, so if you know someone who deserves recognition please let us know here.