Paul's Gemini star sign may account for his attraction to contradictory styles: on the one hand, the need to highlight the drawing itself, the graphic skills; and on the other hand, the desire to paint freely without formal constraint.

Culturally, the artist's interest in the first aspect stems partly from a study of classicism, with its linear approach, its confinement to formal limits and distinct plans; followed by a more contemporary and more evident approach, derived from comic strips.

The second aspect recalls the essential Baroque style: a more pictorial approach, rejecting outlines, in search of connections; as well as the more vivid, systematic approach, the indivisible unity of informal contemporary art.

In 2003, the artist's output was sped up by an intuitive synthesis. The acrylic canvas paintings are produced according to the following successive stages:

o To start with, a sketch is drawn from a visual support on one of various themes: landscapes, plants, characters, animals, imaginary variations with humorous undertones, perhaps inspired by Magritte.

o Followed by a deconstructive process which involves fragmenting shapes, tending towards the abstract, in the wake of Picasso's analytic cubism.

o These confined abstract shapes are then painted in a base colour and outlined with a black border and are thus enhanced. This reminds us of the spirit of the period in which “The Divers” was painted by Fernand Léger, creator of plastic contrast.

o The subsequent reconstructive process is applied to the remaining defined open space by various techniques such as: the mixing and overlaying of colour with a palette knife, the potential use of a stencil; finishing off in the pointillist fashion, in which the impressionists excelled, where the white spaces set aside give birth to shimmering light.

Since 2008, this process has been enriched by the assembling of fragments to add volume and render the final result more intricate.

The artist's intuitive synthesis stems partly from a transposition from the biological field, from the example of blood fluids. While blood appears to be a unified substance, it is in fact composed of clearly defined red and white cells floating in plasma. This indefinite muddle gave rise to the analogy of plastic construction.

Another source of inspiration is the psycho-physiological mechanism of eyesight. In perceiving the world around us, we select - no doubt somewhat subjectively - clearly defined real elements; leaving the unperceived remaining spaces to form a blur, similar to the abstract.

The artist's approach to his work is also of a dual nature: combining a laborious constructive phase, calling on his intellect and logic, with a phase of liberating, more spontaneous movement, calling on his intuition.