Paul Goodwin Biography
Paul Goodwin (Hull, Yorkshire - 23 July 1951) Both parents are painters. The father is also a mosaicist, art historian, academic, scholar of Indian art and philosophy. As a boy he traveled a lot with his parents to Italy, France and Spain. Between 1969 and 1973 he studied with Lawrence Gowing at the University of Leeds and obtained an Advanced Diploma in Art & Design Education at the University of Sussex between 1978-1979. From 1979 to 1983 he lived in London, Uganda, Nigeria and Zimbabwe, working as a teacher of painting, film and photography. For the period from 1973 to 1977 he worked for several months in Asia Minor, crossing Turkey, Syria and Kurdistan, where he collaborated in the creation of a historical documentary for television, which retraces the places of Xenophon's "Anabasis". In the seventies and eighties he made frequent trips to the African continent, where he continued to return for various periods. In 1984, after leaving teaching and after a one-year stay in London, dedicating himself completely to painting, Goodwin moved to Italy and at the invitation of the artists Paola Brusati and Giuseppe Spagnulo, he settled in a studio at the "Casa degli Artists” in Corso Garibaldi in Milan. He lived and worked here for thirteen years. In 1992 he began to prepare the new home-studio in the Langa Astigiana (southern area of Piedmont), which in 1997 became his main residence and permanent place of work.
