About My Work:
My inspiration and influences range from Renaissance art to Dadaism and Surrealism, from Picasso to the flotsam and jetsam that I pick up on my walks by the sea near my home. Having experimented with a wide variety of media during my time at art school, I found that photography was the thing that most excited me. Its' immediacy and the rather hazy line that can be created between reality and the feeling of not being quite sure what's happening is what I find appealing.

Some pictures are simple and complete inside my head from the beginning, but most of my images start with the inspiration of the objects themselves. It may be something found in a junk shop, washed up on the beach near my home or something from my past, such as wooden letters from a childhood game or my palette from art school days.

I often assemble a collection of such items and then experiment to find the perfect juxtaposition of composition, form and colours - what I think of as playtime. Sometimes a meaning will evolve that was not intended, but I mostly prefer people to read what they like into the pictures and hopefully enjoy them for their visual stimulation.

Awards:
The Association of Photographers : 1 Gold , 2 Merits.
The Royal Photographic Society: 2 Golds.
Kodak Triple Exposure: Winner.
3D Illustrators (USA): I Gold, 6 Bronzes.
Austrian Super Circuit: Overall Winner (27,000 entries - 101 countries).
Polaroid European Final Awards. Apogee Photo Overall Winner

Exhibitions:
UK: The Association of Photographers , Tapestry , The Image Bank , Euro RSCG , Ceta , Lowe Lintas , The Royal Photographic Society.
Worlwide: New York , Tokyo , Cologne , Vienna , Linz , Arles , Amsterdam , The Leonardo da Vinci Museum (Milan) , Musée de la Civilisation (Quebec) , Wisconsin , Florida.
Permanent Collections: The Royal Photographic Society (London).

Alongside the awards and exhibitions there have been many articles featuring Paul Biddle in several magazines including Zoom, Image , The British Journal of Photography , Foto Art , Polaroid "P" Journal of Photography and The Image Bank's Icon magazine , D P Net China.