[b. Berlin, 1972]

Paul - TYSL - Tysall

a Bristol-based UK artist exploring subjects of intimacy and recollection through painting, drawing and digital art. His work combines figurative studies with abstract mark-making placed alongside 3D artefacts of significance

Born in Berlin in 1972, Tysall studied both graphic design and illustration, leading to a career that spanned magazine publishing, freelance brand design, and commercial art.

Insight…

As an artist, Tysall combines multiple disciplines to create layered, interconnected works.

Blending traditional media with 3D digital assemblages (via video projection), the work creates environments that act as both stage and structure for narrative exploration. Paintings blend approaches; beginning with graffiti mediums and tools like spray paint, ink, markers and rollers, and develop into oil paint (including oil sticks). Drawings favour Conté and/or charcoal pastel, chosen for their shared mark-making qualities with paint.

The work invites both direct engagement and introspective reflection. Figurative subjects, rendered on canvas or paper, are positioned among curated collections of found 3D objects. Tysall explores the innate human tendency to assign meaning to objects; examining their capacity to mark time, anchor emotion, and evoke memory. Compositions are often divided, reflecting the way we compartmentalise experience. Through their (re)arrangement, these fragments converge to form the recollection of a person, time, event, or place — becoming the subject of the traditional painting or drawing component.

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"Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the How, not the What; not with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance—that is the content of art.”
| Josef Albers