Paul Compton 'Cuddle-Beast Boys ' bright & vivid a figure dines at a

a figure dines at a checkerboard table

This etching highlights her eye for detail

the Art Gallery of Ballarat

King is recognised as one of Australia’s foremost contemporary printmakers

drawing the viewer inward as if stepping quietly among trees

Paul Compton 'Cuddle-Beast Boys ' bright & vivid a figure dines at aPaul Compton is an illustrator, artist and print maker based in Melbourne. Featuring creatures real and imagined, Comptons work is often fantastical in nature, and through his work he blends aspects of realistic figuration with a sense of the absurd. Comptons creations are a testament to the artists ever present imagination. In Cuddle Beast Boys, Comptons wide eyed creatures, locked together in animated conversation, form a single interconnected