From a young age, drawing was established as the primary way of making sense of the world of American artist Paul Larson, as a means of observing, questioning, and translating awareness of experience into visual form.

 

A student of Fine Art and Art History at the university level, his development was shaped by mentors including landscape artist William Gerhold and noted watercolorist Charles “Chick” Peterson. Earlier encouragement from high school art teachers Shirley Jankowich and John Fitzgerald also played an important role in his artistic formation.

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From1974 through 1985 Larson worked as an artist and designer in the wallpaper design and manufacturing industry, eventually serving as a collection coordinator and project director. In 1986, he established his own studio, Mirage, and joined the fledgling Loft Artists collective in the historic Yale & Towne Lock Factory building in Stamford, Connecticut.

 

Over the course of more than five decades, Larson has developed a body of work marked by continuous exploration and formal reinvention. Beginning with strong roots in observation and representation, his paintings evolved through figurative and Cubist influences toward an increasingly distilled visual language. Across series that range from intimate interior worlds to more abstract constructions, his work remains grounded in a search for structure, atmosphere, and emotional resonance beneath surface appearances.

 

Working in various media, Larson has created paintings and works on paper that balance formal discipline with intuitive discovery. His work has been exhibited widely in Connecticut and beyond, and is held in private collections in the United States and internationally.

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