User:Paul holroyd

Paul was born in Morley, Leeds (England) in 1967 and moved to neighbouring town Batley in his late 20's where he lives now with his second wife Bev and son Luke.

Paul first realized his love of art at an early age which led to taking 0 level art at school and having 2 paintings selected for display at Leeds art gallery from a plethora of entries from several West Yorkshire schools.

After leaving school his dream of pursuing a career in movie animation fell by the wayside and after trying his hand at auto mechanics and then several managerial jobs in the leisure industry to support his young family he settled into a job at engineering firm Yorkshire Rubber Linings where he still works today as a Quality Health and Safety manager.

Paul got back into painting in 2003 when his wife bought him paints and materials for his birthday after hearing him mention on more than one occasion over the years how he used to enjoy it so much and has never looked back since.

Paul has fused his love of painting and motorsport to create breathtaking quality images of his iconic car the Porsche and to date has commissions from British race team P.K. Sport and American team Petersen / White Lightning, the racesite.com, Strasse Porsche Leeds, The American Le Mans Series, race driver Patrick Long and Peter Seikel of Seikel Motorsport under his belt not to mention countless private commissions.

Paul as also released in December 2005 the painting “Team Work” on a 100 off limited edition print with all profits going to the Salvation Army American Lemans Grid Kids Appeal and also promised that he will donate £5.00 from each print sold from the sale of any of this collection.

Paul is in the early stages of very promising painting career in the motorsport art world. As well as private commissions Paul has several paintings currently in print, which are available to purchase in a limited edition of only 250, 150 and 100 prints worldwide, which are now starting to become collectible very quickly.

In 2005 Paul’s workload doubled and apart from the number of privet collectors that had ordered commissions more and more race teams where approaching Paul regarding his artwork. With the help of porschesport.com Paul’s name is now known around the World within the racing community and has many friends and contacts especially in the USA. Paul's down to earth approach to art and motorsport has been noted among the teams and they have stated that they enjoy working with Paul when it comes to ordering commissions.

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" I have been very fortunate to make some very good friends within the motorsport community and have had the honor of been a VIP guest at many a race meeting including being a VIP guest at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with PK Sport and Petersen White Lighting and Seikel Motorsport over the past 5 years. I have meet and painted commission for some very famous race drivers and enjoy working with the teams. I take any approach to my artwork the same be it a race team or a bloke in the pub, my passion is motorsport but I have painted pets and modem art for people too, I will try my hand at anything" All limited edition fine art prints are signed, numbered and approved by Paul Holroyd, each print comes with a certificate of authenticity and is reproduced using only the finest papers and inks.

For the first time in 2008 Paul made the trip to the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona where he presented in person "Against all Odd's" a commissioned painting to the 2007 GT winners of the Daytona event Alegra Mototsport.