Born in 1973 in Groningen, the Netherlands, Paul studied at the Minerva School of Fine Arts in the same city, where he specialized in lithography and drawing. On completing his degree in 1998, his work was nominated for the Hendrik de Vries Stipendium, and 1999 he was commissioned to create a series of sculptures for the Academic Hospital of Groningen. Since then, his interests have shifted towards painting, and in 2004 a collection of his work was exhibited at the Horst Janssen Museum in Oldenburg, Germany. He moved to Paris, Antwerp and finally ended up Barcelona where he lived and worked for about eight years. He moved back in his hometown in 2011, and painted his first commission for the University Museum of Groningen two years later, creating a series of portraits of retired professors. That same year he did a portrait of the mayor of the same city and starred in the television contest Sterren op het Doek creating a portrait of Dutch actress Ellen Vogel. He started designing posters for classical concerts of the Oosterpoort Music Hall and in 2016 he won the public prize of the AVRO/TROS Kunst contest with his painting 'Sabina's Room' which was exhibited twice in Museum de Fundatie of Zwolle. In recent years, he has been focusing on commissioned portraits, painting murals, while his work was used for several book covers. In 2021 he started writing and illustrating a fiction novel which came out last year.