root & cause

 "One of the pleasures for me during the last year has been to visit Paul and to trace the evolution of his engagement with the Cathedral through the drawings and models, the bits of writing and the stacks of books that have gradually accumulated around his studio at Three Cocks Lane.

Norman Chatfield
Residentiary Canon

"He has used the opportunity of the Residency to immerse himself in the life of this great mediaeval cathedral, its past as well as its present.  His close, almost daily contact with the fabric of the cathedral has deepened an already incipient interest in mediaeval art and architecture as a reflection of mediaeval thought.

Professor Peter Wheeler

quotations from Root and Cause, published by Sarah Myerscough Fine Art

Harbour, 1983 is a small landscape based relief, some 7" in height. In the essay of the catalogue for the exhibition 'The Cutting Edge' (Bolton Museum & Gallery and touring, 1987) Peter Wheeler said

(it) is a small and spontaneous looking piece. Its size and apparent rapidity of execution contradict conventional notions of carved sculpture as difficult and long-winded. For Mason, working against inherited ideas either of technique or purpose and expectations of stone, is a way of remaining alive to its potential, and extending its language.