The Art of the Unexpected

An artist working with a textured material on a large table in a studio with paint-splattered walls and buckets of paint in the background.

Paul Jacob Bashour | Abstract Artist | Los Angeles

Paul Jacob explores memory, material, and the relationship between the past and the present. Through layered surfaces of acrylic, plaster, pigment, wood, and mixed media, he creates paintings that are built, altered, buried, and revealed, allowing every mark to remain part of the final work.

Rooted in the belief that the past is not behind us but lives within everything we are today, Paul Jacob's work embraces accumulation rather than erasure. Each surface becomes a record of experience, where every layer, fracture, and repair contributes to the whole.

His paintings invite quiet reflection, revealing that nothing is ever truly erased and that every surface carries the history of what came before.

Paul Jacob Bashour lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

An art studio with a white draped backdrop, art supplies, and paint splatters, set in an industrial space with exposed brick walls and large windows.

Chicago, 2017