Paul Roehl was raised in California, primarily in the South Bay Area. He received an MA in painting and an MFA in pictorial arts from San Jose State University. He has taught college-level painting, printmaking, and drawing, as well as art history and art appreciation, for over twenty-five years. His work has been shown at the San Jose Art Museum, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Monterey Museum of Art, and the Berkeley Art Center. His work can be seen at Holton Gallery in Emeryville, California. He has given workshops and lectures for the Yuma Art Symposium, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Pajaro Valley Arts Council, Monterey Museum of Art, and the Art Forum of Santa Cruz County. He has also served as a juror for the Sausalito Art Fair and the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County. Paul also does printmaking and painting workshops at his Santa Cruz, CA studio.
He enjoys accurately recreating the techniques and style of late 19th and early 20th-century landscape painters. He also turns to earlier Barbizon school painters for inspiration and American tonalist painters such as George Innes and William Keith. He finds the visual poetry of these artists subtle, fresh, and inspiring.
