About Paul Mullins

The connection we make with the creator as we experience the beauty of his world is a way of seeing things with new eyes. We see His creativity, His power, His beauty, His glory and His Greatness. As you view these few photographic images, see them as reflections of His glory. See with the eyes of your heart that His art is great and that He is even greater.

I love spending time with the Divine Designer and His masterpieces, slowing down enough to perceive them as expressions of the Creators glory and divine nature, then reproducing them with the camera. My photographic vision of nature is simply an attempt to perceive God more clearly as I browse the one man show in nature’s gallery.

TECHNIQUE

Paul works with large format (4x5 view camera) using a 144 megapixel Betterlight scanner that is tethered to a laptop computer the Hasselblad H3DII 39 megapixel medium format camera as well as the Nikon Z7. Photographs are printed as limited editions using ultrachrome inks on 100% cotton photo rag archival papers, a state of the art printing method widely recognized for its rich color quality, archival pigment permanence, and superlative sharpness and detail.

BACKGROUND

From early childhood the artist in Paul was encouraged by his mother Betty who was an art teacher. He attended Art Center College of design in a special program for high school students for two years and worked as graphic artist while attending Santa Ana J.C. and Fullerton College. Paul helped start a graphic design firm in Newport Beach in 1975 and worked in Southern California until 1980.  He moved to the San Joaquin  Valley to work as  Art Director for Normart Advertising. From 1983 until present Paul has been the owner of Mullins  Studio, a creative service to the marketing and advertising needs of Central California. In 1990 Mullins Studio added photography as a service and it has evolved into 90% of the studio’s work.The camera has provided him with an opportunity to use his creativity in a new dimension. Paul’s favorite assignments take him outside where he feels most passionate and at home doing what he calls "Divine Art Reproduction". 

PUBLICATIONS

Photos have appeared in Sierra Press Book - Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Sierra Visitors Guide, Sunset Magazine, Valley Views Magazine, Fresno Magazine, How Magazine, The Ultimate in Graphic Designer’s and Illustrator’s Self-Promotion book, and many landscape images have been selected for use in over 23 various calendars.

AWARDS

  • One by One Leadership award for community service in the area of media.

  • 21 Addy awards for excellence in photography, corporate ID, self promotion, advertising and collateral materials.

  • National Building Industry MIRM awards for direct mail campaign and newspaper advertising.

  • How Magazine’s best in self promotion.

  • American Institute of Architects, Hanna Barsam Award in Photography

EXHIBITIONS / COLLECTIONS

  • Saint Agnes Hospital has over 80 images in their permanent collection.

  • Sierra Pacific Orthopedic Center, 29 images in their permanent collection.

  • William Saroyan Theater, Fresno Philharmonic, solo exhibition.

  • Dirk Weingartz Gallery, Mayen Germany, solo exhibition.

  • KJEWL solo exhibition

  • Fresno City Hall, Fresno Arts Council solo exhibition

  • Fresno Art Museum, Wilderness exhibit

  • Thiesen Dueker, 93 images in their permanent collection

  • Clovis Community Hospital Cancer Institute, 175 image permanent collection

  • Adventist Health, San Joaquin Valley, 520 images in their permanent collection

  • Spectrum Gallery, Solo Exhibit

  • County of Fresno, 68 images in there permanent collection