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Dec 21 | 2 minutes read

paul vivier portrait

Paul Vivier has been a part-time analog painter for 26 years, and recently left his corporate career to realize his lifetime goal of becoming a full time artist. While receiving a BFA in Electronic Media from VCU in 1994 led him down a digital only corporate artist career path, it was at the turn of the millenium that he realized the ironic impermance of digital-based art: an oil painting could last for hundreds of years but a digital file requires older hardware and software versions in order to be read after only a few years. This realization drove him to document his life by creating decades of oil paintings and sketchbooks with watercolor, ink, pencils and pastels. The resulting pieces provide highlights of various milestones in his life, capturing lunches, travel, holidays, family life, heartbreak and love. In his recent works now that he has been able to focus on painting, he has revisited missed landscapes that have haunted him for years, discovered new landscapes to explore and focused in details the flora in his own back yard.

  • 1993 - BFA from VCU School of the Arts. Major in Electronic Media with a minor in Photography.
  • Bath County Arts Show - curated and juried - June 2026
  • The Art Project Side Gallery - Solo - June - July 2026
  • Roanoke Open Studios Tour - April 2026
  • Left of Center - Featured Guest - August 2025
  • New River Arts and Fiber Gallery - Solo - April 2025
  • Open Studio (Roanoke) - October 2024
  • Open Studio (Richmond) - February 2024
  • The Mill on MacArthur (Richmond) - 2011
  • Lift Coffee - Richmond First Friday Art Walk - 2011
  • Crossroads Art Center (Richmond) curated gallery space - 2010
  • Crossroads Art Center (Richmond) Juried Show 2008
  • Art Works Juried show (Richmond) - May 2009
  • Bath County Arts Show - Harris award for “Best new artist in oils” - 2026
  • New River Arts and Fiber Storefront (2024)
Sales & Collections
  • Multiple private collections
  • Westminster Canterbury Richmond Collection
  • RPS Fox Elementary PTA Art Auction (2008, 2009, 2010)
  • Maggie Walker Governor’s School PTA fundraiser (2011)