Back in England in the early 1980's Paul developed almost a cult following for his decorative designs and paintings on scooters. Today, his public works of art are of just about anything, and can be seen just about anywhere. From a bus with a large Elephant or Tiger on it, to a airplane with a 45-foot head of a Cougar hand painted on each side.

Paul's great acclaim eventual created the need to form The Art House in the 80's. A company of his own, that managed the growing success of his Fine Art, teaching and Commercial art. and by 1990 Paul's commissions had grown to epic proportions. One such example was the work commission by the Wiggins Group Plc., to produce a 650 foot long artwork surrounding their site at South Quay in London Docklands and for which he was awarded The Evening Standard Environmental Award. Also in 1990 Paul was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

In the late 90's an exhibition at Derek Johns Ltd., St. James's, London brought so much acclaim, that by new Millennium Karslake found himself booked back to back with high profile commissions, and always with a waiting list.

Examples of this would be Gordon Ramsay whose restaurant Petrus in St. James's was lined with large Paul Karslake Still Lifes. Later, the Turf Club and NABIM, both situated in London, had commissioned large Still Lifes for The Boatyard restaurant in Leigh-on-Sea, had an exhibition at the Rupert Clevely owned The Bearin Clerkenwell and had two paintings nominated for hanging at the RA 2001 Summer Exhibition.

As a highly visable artist, his works have taken a role of their own in pop culture history. One that sticks out is Johnny Depp, who has said he was so influenced by one of Paul's paintings of Keith Richards dressed as a pirate, that he based his character in the Pirates of the Caribbean on that painting.

Using his art for philanthropy has always been a constant in Karslake's career. Over the years Paul has submitted paintings for various charity fundraising auctions raising considerable sums of money per piece at events such as The Ashe Park Charity Polo Challenge in the presence of HRH The Prince of Wales, an auction in Lincoln's Inn Fields in aid of the homeless charity 'Passage' along with fellow artists Tracey Emin, David Bowie and HRH The Prince of Wales amongst others.

Over the course of his very dynamic art career Paul has received a plethora of awards and accolades. But In 2005 Paul was granted with a very special honor, by having an Arts Centre at The Cornelius Vermuyden School and Arts Collage named 'The Karslake Centre'.

Paul Karslake can never be said to conform to the preconception of an artist struggling for inspiration and full of self-doubt. Paul brims with inspiration and enthusiasm. No project is ever too big or too difficult – he will always find the way to produce something truly inspirational!

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