Paul Biddle

Who is Paul Biddle?

Paul Biddle is an English fine art photographer, who specialises in creating carefully studied surreal artworks using real objects and studio lighting for artistic effects. He has exhibited widely both in Britain and around the world. He has won at least 15 international photography prizes.

According to Visual Reviews, "some of his photos genuinely look like paintings. If he were a painter, he would be painting the Surrealism of [Salvador] Dalí and his contemporaries".

Artist Natalie Mayer considers that Biddle's work makes "a clear reference to the surrealist painters"; she discusses one of his works British Food, a collage of a heavily weathered wooden door, on which is placed half of a bowler hat, and a face made of two eggs, a wedge of Stilton cheese, and a fish for a mouth; below this is a part of a collar and a tie, on which rest three carrots. Mayer writes that this "instantly makes me think of [20th century surrealist painter] René Magritte, it [is] the objects and colour".