Paul Aston is a figurative oil painter working in Cambridge in the United Kingdom. His subject matter is varied and includes portraiture, landscape and still life.

His portraits of people stammering have helped to broaden the debate around speech diversity and have been used by speech and language therapists and stammering support groups to challenge preconceptions about stammering. He has spoken at conferences about his work and appeared on podcasts.

In 2023 he was invited to take part in Portrait Artist of the Year which featured this self portrait stammering.

Commisions or interest in paintings

Would you be interested in commissioning a portrait or would you like to own one of my paintings? If so please do get in touch via paulaston22@icloud.com .

Publications, Articles and links:

2023

Sky Portrait Artist of the Year contestant. broadcast October 18th

Portraits of people stammering published in Dysfluent 2 magazine.

Panel member on the City Lit (London) day’s workshop ‘Stammering Pride Against Prejudice: Creating Stammering Culture and Identity’ 15/09/2023

He was on the team who helped Connor Foran to create the Stammering pride flag: https://stutteringprideflag.org

2022

Liverpool Stammafest Conference Panel member debating ‘Can a stammer be beautiful?’

Stammering collective https://www.thestammeringcollective.org/file/paul-aston-portrait-walkthrough

2021

Panel member for the online conference ‘A Celebration of Stammering in the Arts’

https://stamma.org/connect/events/celebration-stammering-arts

Cambridge evening News https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/cambridge-artist-finds-confidence-stammering-19967172

2020

Redefining stammering December 2020 blog. https://www.redefiningstammering.co.uk/a-sea-changes/