Poul Webb was born in Cambridge in 1947 and educated at the Cambridge School of Art. Soon after he graduated, his work was exhibited at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition and in 1973 in the British International Drawing Biennale at Bradford. In the mid 1970s he showed twice in major International Exhibitions of Original Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in Rijeka and work of his was acquired at this time by H.M. Government Art Collection. In 1987 he was one of Ten British Watercolourists shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Bilbao. Since 1990 Poul Webb has worked largely in oils, a development accompanying his preference for a time for subject matter drawn from the Americas.... (http://www.franciskylegallery.com/sites/Webb2.html) "Poul Webb’s art is the art of close focus on the familiar, on things so commonplace that they are never noticed – and here they suddenly are, edged by the eye of a painter into a heightened reality that stops well short of hallucination, yet has the quality of a waking dream… His technical mastery is never obtrusive – but to anyone who has ever dabbled with watercolour in a hot climate and seen the paper cockle and the gentle washes dry harsh, it must be a matter of envy and admiration… Webb jogs us into the gentle discomfort of the sharpened eye, and with deft certainty neatly reminds us that nostalgia, sentiment, curiosity and delight are still legitimate door to perception." Brian Sewell (http://www.franciskylegallery.com/sites/Webb2.html) undefined

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