Paine Proffitt

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Paine Proffitt (born 1972 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American-born artist living in England, best known for his sporting works [1] and for his depiction of the "working man's life". [2] Proffitt moved to Philadelphia when he was fourteen [3] after spending his early years in Saigon, Beirut and Kenya [2] as a result of the work of his father - novelist and war correspondent Nicholas Proffitt. [4] Proffitt studied illustration at the University of Brighton in 1994 before moving to England permanently in 2001. [5]

Proffitt cites some of his influences as being Chagall and Picasso and while not ascribing himself to any one art movement in particular, feels that surrealism, cubism and contemporary naïve art are the best labels for his work. [6] The influence of Fred Otnes has also been noted, [6] with this being most apparent in the collage work Proffitt produced under the pseudonym of Nicholas Hudson Paine. Similarities to L. S. Lowry have also been recognised due to the northern working-class themes of some of his works. [6]

Sport, and especially football, has been a major inspiration to Proffitt's artwork: 'Football is central to who we are and where we come from'. [7] This sporting theme has seen exhibitions such as that at Twickenham for the Rugby World Cup in 2007 [8] [9] [10] as well as commissions for football programme artwork. West Bromwich Albion used Proffitt's work for their programme covers throughout the 2011-12 season, this culminating in the July 2012 exhibition at The Public. [11] Proffitt's artwork featured on the 2012-13 programmes of Port Vale and Aberdeen FC [12] although Proffitt's association with Port Vale goes back several seasons before this. [13] [14]

Stoke-born popstar Robbie Williams is purported to own several of Proffitt's pieces, [1] as do cyclists Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish after the city council presented them with two commissioned paintings during the Stoke-on-Trent stage of the Tour of Britain in September 2012. [15] In July 2020, Proffitt created artwork depicting the song Alan & The Robot by the comedy band The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican for Scott Doonican, the band's frontman. Later in the year he went on to paint the pub sign for Doonican's pub 'The Pint & Puppet'. An early Proffitt piece took top lot in a 2011 UK auction alongside work by Govinder Nazran, Sir Sidney Robert Nolan and Reggie Kray. [16] In a departure from his football-related work, Proffitt most recently exhibited a series of gothic fairy-tale inspired paintings in an exhibition entitled Broken Sleep. [17]

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  2. 1 2 Kerryanne Clancy, The Sentinel, 26/09/2009, "Pleasure and Paine both reflected in sporting art ", 28/04/2011
  3. ↑ Mike Kelly, Sunday Sun, 27/01/2013, "Artist Paine Proffitt captures the magic of football ", 27/01/2013
  4. ↑ Dennis Hevesi, New York Times, 17/11/2006, "Nicholas Proffitt, 63, Novelist and War Correspondent ", 27/07/2012
  5. ↑ Zita Collinson, "The Sentinel", 04/03/2013, "Why my art's in the Valiants ", 12/03/2013
  6. 1 2 3 Creative Stoke, "Creative Stoke interview - Paine Proffitt Archived 2011-05-11 at the Wayback Machine ", 28/04/2011
  7. ↑ Jonny Weeks, Guardian Online, 09/01/2013, "Beautiful Games: nostalgic paintings by Paine Proffitt ", 12/01/2013
  8. ↑ BBC Sport, 20/04/2007, "Rugby in the frame ", 28/04/2011
  9. ↑ Twickenham World Rugby Museum, 2007, "Rugby In The Frame – The Art Of Paine Proffitt [ permanent dead link ]", 12/07/2011
  10. ↑ BBC Your Paintings / Public Catalogue Foundation, "All Welsh Rugby Players Go To Heaven" (2006) ", 27/03/2012
  11. ↑ Birmingham Mail, 04/07/2012, "West Brom artist Paine Proffitt puts work on display "
  12. ↑ Red Web - The Official Aberdeen FC Website, 09/08/2011, "redmatchday magazine issue 01 Archived 2014-08-08 at the Wayback Machine ", 14/08/2011
  13. ↑ Nick Moore, Four Four Two, Sept. 2011, "The Life & Times of a Port Vale Steward"
  14. ↑ Jon Harrington, The Sentinel, 14/09/2009, "Picture Poser ", 28/04/2011
  15. ↑ Steven Kennedy, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, 13/09/2012, "'Great stage' for Wiggo rounds off summer of sport in the city ", 13/09/2012
  16. ↑ Stroud People, 12/03/2011 "Pittville Pump Room antique sale report "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-04-21. Retrieved 2011-07-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)", 26/07/2011
  17. ↑ Clare White, The Sentinel, 31/05/2013, "Why Moorcroft is the model for the digital-age innovators ", 07/06/2013
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