About PaulTheCAD

About me

My first job after school was standing in a line of other draftsman working on engineering drawings, just the simple stuff. I toyed with the idea of training to be an architect, but wanted a broader drawing / design career, so I went to art school. First, Maidstone College of Art, then Ravensbourene College of Art and Design. Within a few years of graduating I was exhibiting drawings and paintings in several London Art galleries. Fine Art is still a large part of my life and I exhibit widely and often, my work can be found at www.paultracey.net.

Running parallel to painting has always been magazine illustration, model making and light engineering projects. In my late thirties I returned to university to take a degree in Technology and this opened up a whole new tool set to create with.

So now I work with designers in a variety of diverse fields helping them realise their projects in CAD, as well as training surveyors, builders, interior designers and architects in the use of CAD software.

In the summer of 2017 I started a project visiting and painting piers around the UK, this has expanded to piers in California and Europe. I have also be putting together a collection of old postcards of both existing and long gone piers. Some I reconstruct in TurboCAD, then paint, playing fast and free with colours. The project has its’ own site at The Piers Project

PaulTheCAD – Paul Tracey