Paul Bloomer - The Despondent Poet

Dudley artist Paul Bloomer discusses his large scale drawing ‘The Despondent Poet’, showing ‘a Black Country factory worker though he’s secretly a poet inside – without anyone knowing it.’

His bleak yet clearly perceptive features and muscular, veiny hands allude to the kind of powerful creative temperament so often repressed in a remorseless industrial society.

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