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Paul's photographs are marvelous (understatement).
I find the 'Empty Spaces' portfolio to be my favorite.
I love the haunting quality, and there are several of them that
I think of often and go to the web site to have another look!
- Jeff Kapke, Lisbon, Portugal, 2006
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Paul's work is reminiscent of some of the great masters
of the mid-20th century, such as Ansel Adams and Minor White.
- Deborah Martin Kao,
Fogg Museum,
Harvard University, 2005
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Paul Wainwright's black and white photograph "Box Pews, Rocky Hill Meeting House"
drives home the essence of
the celebration of the Peace Treaty.
Establishing the historic first in "multi-track" diplomacy meant the
community came together in support of the common goal,
even inviting the Russians and Japanese negotiators
into their homes.
This grew out of their sense of community and their moral beliefs;
it grew out of the
meetinghouse.
Wainwright's photo of four family box pews creating one cross reminds us of this cultural history.
- Elizabeth Nguyen, 2005, in a review of the New Hampshire Art Association show "Art for Peace,"
commemorating the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Russo-Japanese treaty in Prtsmouth, NH
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Wainwright works in the large format traditions of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston,
and Paul Strand. The images in this exhibition include interpretive images of the
natural landscape and architectural interiors that are literal in their renderings
while simultaneously contemplative and quiet.
The compositions are passages for meditation. The windows, doorways, and
stairs are a symphony of time, space, and light. The stairways in particular,
present a paradox. Viewed quickly, they are the Whirling Dervishes; pondered
and digested, they are the mindful present.
- Tony Decaneas,
Panopticon Gallery,
December 2005
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Looking through Paul's web site is a delightful journey of the senses.
- Jackie Abramian,
Haley Farm Gallery,
Kittery, Maine
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