With a Master of Fine Arts, Paul returned to Idaho. From that period until his death in 1991, he worked exclusively as an artist. He was inspired by abstract shapes and textures, recording by sketch when and wherever they arose, working in a variety of media including encaustic, oil, watercolor, charcoal, pencil, as well as sculpture. Religious imagery occurs in many of his works. The cross, landscape, and Slavonic folklore-like images of trolls and demons can be seen in many of his works.
Fantastic scapes call to mind both mythological and futuristic space.
The couple spent the last 25 years in Lubbock, Texas where Paul worked in his studio while his wife carried out her duties as a professor of Home Economics at Texas Tech University.