Daler Rowney - Creative Journeys: Exploring Symbols and Storytelling in Community Workshops with LUAP

This article discusses LUAP's involvement in community workshops in Bexley, focusing on creative expression and collaborative storytelling through visual art, helping participants explore emotions and communicate experiences using creative techniques.

Mind in Bexley – Renowned Artist to Attend More of Our Art Club Groups

This piece highlights LUAP's growing partnership with Mind in Bexley, where he regularly attends creative sessions to support mental health through artistic engagement, offering a safe and expressive environment for participants.

Forbes - 8 Exhibitions To See In London This Winter

LUAP is featured in a curated selection of standout London exhibitions, where his Pink Bear series is recognized for its bold emotional storytelling and visual commentary on the inner self, engaging both art lovers and critics alike.

The Wick - Life Lines at the Bottle Factory

This article explores LUAP’s 'Life Lines' exhibition, where vibrant portraits blend photorealism and abstraction to reflect emotional complexity. It looks at how collaboration and shared stories shaped each piece, connecting mental health with creative expression.

Trebuchet Magazine – Can a Pink Bear Change Its Hue? LUAP Paints Portraits of the Psyche

An in-depth analysis of LUAP's artistic journey and symbolic exploration through his Pink Bear, which represents layers of identity and psychological states, showing how visual art can externalise complex emotional experiences.

Digital Camera World - Nikon supports new mental health exhibition combining photography and painting

This article discusses LUAP’s exhibition sponsored by Nikon, showing photography and painting to reflect on mental wellbeing, where the Pink Bear serves as a central figure for navigating personal struggle and healing.

Inspiring City – Lifelines from LUAP: Incredible Portraits Exploring Mental Health

A thoughtful review of LUAP’s "Lifelines" exhibition, capturing deeply personal portraits that address the nuances of mental health, identity, and resilience through powerful use of color, expression, and surreal symbolism.

Culturalee – LUAP Explores Our Fractured Human Psyche With 'Life Lines'

This feature unpacks how LUAP’s "Life Lines" exhibition confronts emotional fragility and fragmented identity using bold composition and recurring motifs, inviting the audience to reflect on shared inner vulnerabilities.

The Artiscape – Life Lines: A New Exhibition by LUAP

Coverage of LUAP’s "Life Lines" solo show, focusing on its therapeutic aim and artistic depth, where each piece invites viewers to consider how creativity can confront emotional struggle and foster mental health dialogue.

BBC - Giant pink teddy mural sparks happy memories

This story showcases LUAP’s large-scale Pink Bear mural and its power to evoke joy, nostalgia, and emotional memory, showing how public art can spark conversation and connect viewers to personal and shared experiences

Cene Magazine - Laid Bear: An Interview With LUAP & The Pink Bear

A candid interview with LUAP about the genesis and evolution of his Pink Bear, reflecting on how it grew from a personal symbol to a powerful lens for exploring psychology, vulnerability, and contemporary identity.

Mongolian Embassy - Finding Balance: A ‘Pink Bear’ Journey Through Mongolia’s Light and Landscape

LUAP’s journey through Mongolia becomes a canvas for his Pink Bear character to explore inner peace, balance, and the tension between solitude and connection, captured across stunning photographic and painted landscapes.

DUZ (Print) - Pink Bear Pavilion

A print-exclusive look into LUAP’s immersive Pink Bear Pavilion, designed as both installation and experience to reflect themes of self-reflection, emotional healing, and artistic confrontation with inner trauma.

FAD Magazine - The Pink Bear Pavilion | €250,000 In Scholarships Announced By LUAP & UE

LUAP's Pink Bear Pavilion is profiled here as an ambitious multidisciplinary art environment, combining sculpture, digital art, and interactive elements to explore therapeutic space and audience participation.

Hamburger Abendblatt - Altonale: Pink Giant Bear Is The Eye-Catcher Of The Weekend

Coverage of LUAP’s eye-catching Pink Bear at Altonale Festival in Hamburg, where its towering presence and symbolic imagery sparked widespread public engagement and visual discourse on identity and playfulness.

Inspiring City - The Pink Bear Pavilion Launches in Hamburg

Coverage of LUAP’s eye-catching Pink Bear at Altonale Festival in Hamburg, where its towering presence and symbolic imagery sparked widespread public engagement and visual discourse on identity and playfulness.

Style Magazine (Corriere Della Sera) (Print) - In The Bear’s Head

A print feature that explores the inner symbolism of LUAP’s Pink Bear and how it functions as a visual alter ego, diving into his methods of surreal self-reflection and the blend of fantasy and autobiography.

The Artiscape - The Pink Bear Pavilion

A look inside LUAP’s immersive Pink Bear Pavilion, where visitors are invited into a world of dreamlike visuals and sensory experience that reflect his ongoing focus on emotional storytelling through visual form.

Trebuchet - The Unbearable Reward of Art

A reflective piece examining the emotional labor in LUAP’s practice, and how the act of creating his Pink Bear works reveals a layered reward: public resonance, personal release, and long-term cultural memory.

Trebuchet - A Legacy of Smiles

Explores LUAP’s mission to use art to uplift and console, centring on how his Pink Bear—though playful—carries serious undertones of healing, resilience, and human connection across cultures and contexts.

House Collective - Inner Landscape: The Artist LUAP On The Genesis Of Pink Bear Pavilion And The Healing Power Of Art

An interview with LUAP discussing the therapeutic role of art in his life and how the Pink Bear Pavilion was born from deep introspection, childhood memory, and the drive to create shared healing spaces.

FLO London - In conversation with LUAP

A conversation with LUAP about his artistic journey, where he reflects on the origins of the Pink Bear, the emotional resonance of his work, and how art has become a vital method of introspection and therapeutic communication with a wider audience..

Happiful - Artist’s childhood toy rides again

This article traces LUAP’s inspiration for the Pink Bear back to a childhood memory, unpacking how nostalgia, memory, and emotional growth have all shaped his practice, turning personal history into shared visual language around mental health.

Town & Country - Cover Story - Follow The Bear

A cover story spotlighting LUAP’s Pink Bear character, exploring how this surreal, colorful figure has become a visual vehicle for storytelling, self-analysis, and broader commentary on mental health, isolation, and identity in modern life.

Diplomat Magazine - Finding Balance: A ‘Pink Bear’ Journey Through Mongolia’s Light and Landscape

This feature covers LUAP’s Mongolia project, where his Pink Bear traverses breathtaking natural landscapes, representing the pursuit of balance between solitude and connectivity, and visualizing the journey through emotional and cultural terrains.

Peta Pixel - How Artist LUAP Healed Through His ‘The Pink Bear’ Photos

An article exploring LUAP’s photographic approach to healing through the Pink Bear series, blending performance, travel, and reflection to navigate past trauma, find artistic purpose, and build connections with viewers through honest visual narrative.

The Art Gorgeous - Artists Who Work Under Extreme Conditions

This piece highlights LUAP among several artists creating work in physically or emotionally demanding environments, reflecting how he channels discomfort and hardship into reflective visual forms through his Pink Bear concept.

Blow Out - Cover - LUAP and The Bear

A visual and editorial cover feature diving into LUAP’s persona and the Pink Bear’s identity, looking at how this recurring character functions as a visual diary and artistic stand-in for navigating contemporary psychological themes.

Art Plugged - Artist LUAP Gives A Rare Insight Into The Meaning Of His Pink Bear In An Intimate Q&A

An intimate Q&A with LUAP revealing the internal symbolism, childhood links, and social goals behind the Pink Bear character, and how it continues to evolve as a medium for introspection and public mental health advocacy.

Creative Boom - Paul Robinson Tackles Mental Health And Existential Anxieties In His Striking Pink Bear Artworks

This article examines LUAP’s artistic process and how his work addresses mental health, using the surreal Pink Bear figure to externalize inner conflict, mood shifts, and philosophical questions about identity and belonging.

DP Review - A Pink Bear In Mongolia: How Paul Robinson Hit The Steppes With A Colorful Character

An exploration of LUAP’s photographic expedition through Mongolia, showing his Pink Bear inserted into stunning natural backdrops, creating symbolic commentary on solitude, journeying, and the power of visual presence in wild landscapes.

Art Daily - LUAP Join Anonymous Art Auction For Charity

News of LUAP contributing a unique Pink Bear artwork to an anonymous art auction benefitting mental health charities, reflecting his ongoing commitment to social good and the therapeutic role of accessible art.

Camden New Journal - Banged-Up Pink Bear Heads Up Police Station Exhibition

Covers LUAP’s thought-provoking exhibition inside a repurposed police station, using the Pink Bear to address themes of isolation, judgment, and freedom—transforming a space once linked with confinement into one of artistic liberation.

Art Dog - Cover Story - Pink Teddy Bear

A profile and visual spread dedicated to LUAP’s Pink Bear, tracing its evolution, symbolism, and growing recognition across global art scenes as a unique character blending visual whimsy with emotional weight and societal relevance.

Hunger - Hunger’s MVP Of The Week

LUAP is featured as Hunger’s MVP of the week for his distinctive Pink Bear works, praised for balancing aesthetic playfulness with deep introspection, tackling trauma, mental health, and inner identity through a stylised surreal form.

Luxury London - Art In The Age Of Now

Discusses LUAP’s participation in the “Art In The Age Of Now” group exhibition, exploring how his Pink Bear joins other works addressing personal and collective trauma, curated in a space reimagined for emotional and cultural healing.

Art Plugged - Nature & Nurture – The Pink Bear

This article explores how LUAP’s Pink Bear bridges the tension between internal emotional nature and external cultural environments, serving as a visual companion on the artist’s journey through memory, identity, and growth.

Art Daily - Paul Robinson Aka LUAP Launches New Installation On New Bond Street

Reports on LUAP’s installation debut on New Bond Street, using the Pink Bear motif to bring themes of psychological contrast, reflection, and childhood inspiration into high-traffic public space in a commercial-artistic fusion.

The Mayfair Musings - New Art Exhibition At 95 New Bond Street

Covers LUAP’s latest exhibition in Mayfair, showcasing how the Pink Bear continues to evolve, with new work blending traditional fine art elements with street influences and immersive presentation aimed at public emotional engagement.

Art Collector - The Unconscious Therapy: An Exhibition By LUAP

Highlights LUAP’s “Unconscious Therapy” solo show as an exploration of inner life through surreal visuals and performance photography, with the Pink Bear guiding visitors into layered interpretations of psychological resilience and expression.

Fad Magazine - The Top 6 Exhibitions To See In London During Frieze Week

LUAP’s “Unconscious Therapy” is ranked among top Frieze Week exhibitions, noted for its bold visual language, social relevance, and immersive storytelling using the Pink Bear as a lens into contemporary emotional and mental themes.

Style Magazine (Corriere Della Sera) - Cover Story - The Pink Bear

A print and digital cover story that follows the trajectory of LUAP’s Pink Bear from underground idea to international symbol, charting how personal reflection, travel, and trauma evolved into a public-facing creative campaign.

Time Out - Fulham’s Getting A Great New 130-Year-Old Art Space. For A Bit

This article previews the opening of Fulham Town Hall’s transformation into an art space, where LUAP joins other artists to showcase bold work—his Pink Bear included—as part of a larger exploration of space, memory, and mental wellbeing.

Fad Magazine - Fad Catches Up With LUAP And Mc Llamas As They Prepare To Unveil ‘The Unconscious Therapy’ During Frieze Week

A behind-the-scenes piece on LUAP preparing “The Unconscious Therapy” during Frieze Week, discussing collaboration, exhibition planning, and how the Pink Bear continues to evolve both as visual brand and artistic mirror.

Rise Art - Interview with Conceptual Artist LUAP

An in-depth artist profile where LUAP shares how his practice has shifted from pure photography to mixed media, with the Pink Bear symbolizing layered identity, memory triggers, and his belief in art’s role as visual therapy.

Eco Hustler - Artist Tackling Issues Related To The The Ever-Growing Sense Of Eco-Anxiety Afflicting So Many These Days

Covers LUAP’s inclusion in eco-conscious art discussions, where his work channels emotional response to environmental crisis through symbolic compositions, using the Pink Bear to reflect fragility and responsibility in uncertain times.

Artists & Climate Change - The Apple Tree

This reflective essay by LUAP (Paul Robinson) explores how his Pink Bear character connects personal memories with nature and environmental themes. It delves into his childhood experiences and how they influence his artistic expression.

GQ - 10 Coolest Things To Do In London

GQ includes LUAP’s Kensington + Chelsea Art Week exhibition in its list of cultural highlights, praising his visually engaging Pink Bear work as a must-see example of how emotional themes are being redefined in public art spaces.

Standard (Print) - Art Show To Raise Money For Mental Health Charity

This print article covers an art exhibition aimed at raising funds for a mental health charity, featuring LUAP's contributions. His involvement underscores his commitment to mental health awareness through art.

Art Week - The Pink Bear. The Extraordinary Journey Of An Alter Ego: An Interview With Paul Robinson

An in-depth interview with LUAP discussing the evolution of his Pink Bear alter ego, his artistic journey, and the themes he explores in his work. The piece provides valuable insights into his creative process and inspirations.

Photo Phore - Pink Bear by Paul Robinson

A detailed look at LUAP’s visual language in the Pink Bear series, unpacking how this character allows the artist to journey through identity, emotional space, and human complexity using photography, landscape, and surrealist staging.

Another - Works By Three Emerging Artists

This piece introduces LUAP among a trio of rising creatives, praising his Pink Bear work for its conceptual clarity, emotional accessibility, and ability to bridge fine art and pop surrealism in ways that challenge traditional aesthetics.