Paul Freud's work has been described by Dan Crowe, writer at British Vogue as “radically traditional.” April 2006 The artist has travelled extensively and previously resided in New York, Los Angeles, South Africa and Brazil.

This was the time of Paul Freud's art studies and under these Goldsmithian influences, he said, according to the preface to one of his exhibitions; “Painting life seemed to me to be the most appropriate and radical thing to do.” I like it.

On 19 October 2019, Paul Freud's exhibition The Edge of Abstraction opened at The Royal Exchange, London, sponsored by Fortnum and Mason, and featured in Country and Town House Magazine, and The Times Diary.

The Edge of Abstraction is described by Paul Freud as his "most oceanic" body of work, all created during the past 20 years, featuring expressive drawings in black colourfast and lightfast Indian ink, and oil on canvas.

The term the oceanic feeling was first coined by French novelist and playwright Romaine Rolland, in a letter to Sigmund Freud, in reference to a sense of eternity.