I was born in Thessaloniki and I gratuated  Dr. of Pathology at the Aristotle University.

I started to paint in 1977. I dealt systematically with the monotype and collage. I experimented with different materials and studying their behavior came up with a technique that is a combination of etching and monotype collage. Ι sold  step by step , over to 1.500 original works.

Through the years, A mixed technique also  appears in my works, as  I added in oilpaintings  seperate materials such as wood, metal parts, stone etc.

My art style is close to the movement and style of Paul Klee.

 First interested for my work , the exceptional stylist , Dinos Christianopoulos,  who helped me  greatly motivating to work. For years I was a partner of the  art Gallery "Diagonios" in the historical centrum of Thessaloniki city ,  where I presented my first solo exhibition and we cooperated as well, with the art gallery "Leonardo" and I participated at exhibitions of various art galleries in  Northern  Greece.  I presented my last exhibition  for  the Municipality of Thessaloniki at 2002. At  the same year I traveled again   in Adelaide, where I  was living  for several years and I was living after  there, for some years in Europe  and M. East. Iraq was my last professional station. My first atelier  was located in the center of Thessaloniki, and in recent years I live, work and paint in Thessaloniki west side .  My near short vision  is to establish a new art studio in Netherlands.

"Painting is the only way  to  communicate  with myself."

My art brochure

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Paul Michail belongs to the younger generation of the Thessalonians  Greek artists, a generation that learned a lot from the first post-war painters and is now trying to overcome them , although  it was pass away  only four years since he  started painting. Michail is  able to create a work of his own private style, perhaps because he had piled into the many features and images. Technicaly , Michail works as follows: In an area where preceded engraving work, puts colors and various solvents, then captures on paper and completes the composition with the collage. In terms of style, Michail moved to the known context of abstract art, without avoiding the human figure, while the psyche ranges from lyrical libido in troubled introvert.

Dinos Christianopoulos, 1979 - Awarded Greek stylist and writer

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Part of the attractiveness of paintings of Paul Michail is  certainly depands to his  technique. Michail charts the stone, wood or thick canvas, stretching up oil colors, density differentiates them with solvent and then proceeds to printing on paper. Of the twenty or thirty prints that none of them is identical to the other, keeping only one, the best in his opinion. Of the remaining before the destroy, distract some pieces that uses to set up other projects. Thus the "random" to the extent it exists, is limited to only one per se monotype and other products that are essentially a personal collage "cutting", based on conscious and require synthetic procedure. The images of Michail is relatively small. The plastic but space in which we refer is surprisingly broad and extends conceivably even beyond the physical limits of the table. Before us lie more or less abstract landscapes in a state stellar solitude or time of a geological change, sometimes with traces of vegetation and not infrequently with references to a strange geometry. In this latter category starring lines thin, full of tension, sometimes disciplined and sometimes irregular as cracks on glass. Also, in almost all the projects important role seems to play professional experience. Macroscopic view of the landscape that begins the adventure of doctor's eye the images of the microscope, and the incisions and the various formations, often reminiscent pus-flowing  irritations  or bleeding parts of the human body,  requires contact with surgery. In the negotiation of all elements, both organic and inorganic, color dominates and reveals sensitivity and unique tone has. The landscapes that emerge through the Michail compositions are troubled with strong traces of corrosion.  They are  finally landscapes of the soul.

Alkis Charalambidis ,1983 - Professor of Art History in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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Pavlos Michail , follows the way of Tsizek   (he never been his mentor), and he  presented to us many works since 1978, with collages from his own monotypes. He moves in the area of abstract art, so it is difficult to distinguish some modules. The new way  that inserts  Michail, is a kind of etching  applied onto monotypes, thus utilizes a wide range of lines (which may be straight or curved) or bullets, and other geometric shapes and gives great extensions in his paintings . This interference on Monotypes, combined with the chromatic harmony that achieves the collage, make configurations can sometimes resemble arabesques, sometimes rocks and rarely more specific things, such as ponds, paddy fields, landscapes or cities.

Pericles Sfyridis 1985 - Modern Greek poet, novelist, essayist, critic, anthologist