Paul Cummins

Paul Cummins MBE (born 26 September 1977) is an English artist from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, who produces landscape installations using ceramic flowers.

Cummins worked as a maker of architectural models, and then studied ceramics at the University of Derby's College of Arts.

He has colour associated dyslexia,[1] and was one of the artists with disabilities commissioned by the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, the UK Arts Councils and the British Council to produce works for Unlimited, a programme celebrating disabled artists' work in the run up to and during the London 2012 Olympics[2] and Paralympics.

[3] Cummins conceived the monumental installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red at the Tower of London, which commemorated the British and Colonial losses in the First World War with 888,246 ceramic poppies.

[7][8][9] Other clients for which Cummins has produced work include Chatsworth House, Hardwick Hall and Blenheim Palace.