Paul Darby was born in Warwickshire,England in 1964 and has had various exhibitions since he started painting and photographing 30 years ago. He has travelled extensively and has had exhibitions in the UK and on the continent and in Jamaica where he lived for a number of years. Paul now works and lives between Spain Murcia and Warwickshire England. Throughout the nineties Paul traveled through northern India, Nepal as well as parts of Tibet photographing, drawing and painting in depth psychological portraits of the people of the Himalayas. Paul gained an interest in Tibetan culture and has tried to capture the essence of people in paintings and photographs as well as the nature of the race. "My art work is a reflection of my spiritual energy;what i have seen in the world and what i have felt deeply"