A Day in October Paul Chester paints peaceful contemporary impressionist land and waterscapes. Inspired by the natural countryside surrounding his home in Keene, located in southeastern Ontario, Paul celebrates and shares his recollected visions as an emotional experience through his works of art. His early exposure to familial artists in his parents, both painters and his mother also a sculptor, naturally led a nineteen-year-old Paul to pick up his father’s old paint set. He loved It and couldn’t leave it. Inspired and supported, Paul was driven to pursue his own art. “Painting for me is a poetic expression…” With private lessons to start, Paul enrolled in the school Arts Sake in Toronto. In 1982, his ambition took him abroad to study art at the Academy St. Roch in Paris, France. Inspired by the great impressionists, think Monet, the idea was to immerse himself in the art and culture, and secretly he always wanted to learn to speak French. This all-French academy meant