Now based in his Cambridgeshire workshop where every item is hand-finished, Paul had a very different start to his career, He was apprenticed to the famously eccentric master goldsmith David Pearce who, he says, "taught me not only the finest craftsmanship but also that there were no limitations.
We worked in many other materials besides precious metals - he could work in anything, like creating a mythical miniature galleon from a nautilus shell. The first thing he did was send me to the library to find images of beautiful objects I would like to make. I was very lucky to be taught by a true artist who knew no boundaries - it made me free to fly".