About

Born in London in 1974, Paul Seftel is a British–American artist whose work explores the alchemy of earth, memory, and light. At eighteen he left home to travel solo across the United States and beyond, living close to the land — from the deserts of Morocco to the mountains of Colorado — experiences that shaped his lifelong fascination with the raw materials of nature and consciousness.

Educated in London and Edinburgh, Seftel later lived and worked in New York, California, and Colorado before settling near Santa Fe, New Mexico — a landscape that has inspired his work for over three decades. His mineral-based paintings use materials such as limestone, marble dust, copper, mica, iron and phosphorescent pigments to create light-reactive surfaces that shift as you move.

Each piece is an excavation: layers of earth and emotion fused into a living skin of color and time. His practice bridges ancient and contemporary processes, examining the luminous threshold between the geological and the human where surface becomes memory

Seftel has exhibited internationally across the U.S. and Europe. His glowing, tactile works and installations invite viewers into a dialogue between matter and meaning — between what is buried and what endures.