Paul Kenton showed an interest in painting from an early age; at the tender age of twelve, he won a national colouring competition - winning a prized set of paints. He continued to draw and paint all through school becoming proficient in watercolour but was disappointed not to be awarded a place at Art College due to his English grades. His disillusionment drove him to study the rigid disciplines of industry and worked as a draughtsman after graduation for several years while still painting in his spare time.

In 1995, supported by a grant from the Princes Youth Business Trust, he started to paint full-time and began exhibiting. Working in acrylic and oils he took inspiration from his world wide travels; the cityscapes, cafes, harbours, and seascapes. Kenton's style has evolved over the past ten years into a free-flowing fusion of various media, capturing the essence of the location rather than "the fiddly details of what something looks like" creating an atmosphere with free shapes, dripped lines and colour. In recent years, he became one of the Best-selling Contemporary artists in U.K. He gained a No. 7 placing in the Top 10 Living Artists in the EPSON/ Art Business Today Best Selling Images Poll 2007 (For details, please visit http://www.paulkenton.com/media/abt_oct07a.pdf ) and was invited to have an exhibition and painted live in the main window of Harrods, London in 2008.