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Paul Gell: (Frederick) Paul Gell (1918-1996) was a painter of figurative and still life subjects, as well as some fine abstracts in the 1950s.  He painted initially in oils, then favoured acrylic as the medium became popular in the 1960s and 1970s, and finally devoted much of his later work to the painting of flowers in watercolour. He was born in Manchester and after the war trained as a mature student at Corsham in Wiltshire under William Scott, Keith Vaughan and others before graduating in 1951. After leaving Corsham he joined the team at Cunard responsible for the design of the interiors of their cruise liners and he later became Assistant Art Director for the Midlands Area of the Arts Council. Alongside these activities Gell was also a talented painter and from 1951 he exhibited at the prestigious London Group, and the Piccadilly Gallery etc. His work from the 1950s owed something to his mentor Keith Vaughan and like Vaughan Paul Gell was especially drawn to painting the male figure.

In 1978 Paul Gell moved from London to Plymouth and purchased a house with a sheltered walled garden which fed his love of flowers and plants leading in 1983 to his book 'Flowers from a Painter's Garden'. He later retired to the Isle of Man with his partner and he died there in 1996. He is represented by a textile designed in the 1950s held in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. A retrospective exhibition of Gell's work was held in Brighton following his death.