Paul Sykes is well known in the US as one of the top international art dealers, representing artists from Montreal, Paris, Germany, Poland, France, Romania, and Latvia. Paul is an accomplished violinist graduating from the Cleveland Institute of Music, (a Board Trustee member since 1997), and was owner of ART AVENUE having 12 art galleries throughout the midwest.

Paul has curated & hosted many celebrities like Peter Max, Itzchak Tarkay, Alexandra Nechita, John Entwhistle, and Yuroz along with high end collections of Dali from the Pierre Argillet collection from France, and the Giuseppe Albaretto collections from Torino, Italy.

In 2017 Paul opened up AVENUE AUCTIONS, which entertains it’s guests by now each month with an International Art Auction in person at Downtown Sarasota and live online on various platforms.