About Paul Priestley, artist and skills coach
Paul was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire some time last century. In his early years, he became the proud owner of a Blue Peter badge, won for a poster he designed of Bradford’s City Hall. Spurred on by this monumental achievement, he went off to college and emerged some years later as an art teacher.
For ten years he ran a very successful Art Department in a Boys Grammar School in Essex and also spent some time in education management, before leaving teaching to set up his own arts company in 2002.
From the small beginnings of the occasional art talk and a few painting courses, filbert arts has grown to become a well respected source of interactive team building events, inspired art courses and art based corporate events for a wide range of clients.
Paul has exhibited his own work in London, Southend, Brentwood, Halifax, Worcester and numerous other places in the UK. His work is in collections in the UK and Germany.
