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PAUL YGARtUA

Lives and works in London, Soho, great Britain
www.thisisartparis.com

Paul Ygartua is a painter and muralist with bases in Canada, France, Spain to new ideas, taking you on a journey of versatility and determination to the
and England. He has single handedly painted some of the largest public next painting. I am always looking to improve on each work so as to fine tune
space murals in Canada and the United States. Renowned internationally for my coordination between body, mind and spirit with emphasis on reaching
his monumental murals, the most famous adorned the walls of the United the point whereby my hands almost are moving without consciously guiding
Nations at Expo 86, Canada. His styles are Realism, Expressionism, Abstract them. Speed is an integral part of the process as it forces one to not dwell
Expressionism, Neo-Expressionism, Surrealism and Abstract Surrealism. He on exactitude rather it forces a continuous flow of inspiration and passion.
graduated from the Liverpool School of Art in 1965 with a degree in Industrial Each style fits into a plan, like a road map to the future and sometimes the
Design (NDD). He turned to painting full time within a few years of arriving direction is not always forward but like a continuous ebb and flow of juices
in Canada 1966 and has been a full-time painter and muralist since then. His which moves one, sometimes, forwards and sometimes backwards. But
paintings are in public and private collections worldwide and are treasured always towards a positive direction. My concept of painting is the journey of
for their intrinsic and real value. struggle and determination for perfection in every aspect of my work – from
“It has been an on-going struggle for perfection – being able to break through design and composition to colour and form. A journey that never ends. In
mental and physical barriers, pushing the envelope to realizing and developing each work that I am going to begin, I put all my passion, feelings and will,
that vision until ultimately a style is born. Then taking that style and working in order to conceive something new and create with my brushes a fantasy
it till it cannot be developed further and only then moving on to adapt this capable of stirring the imagination”

 ARThAbAskA, 2012 ACRYLIC ON CANvAS 48X48 IN./122X122 CM.  WAkAN TANkA, 2012 ACRYLIC ON CANvAS 48X48 IN./122X122 CM.

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