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Paul Ygartua, son of a Basque father, was born in Bebington, near
Liverpool, in 1945, and immigrated to Canada when he was twenty.
At that time he was a jewelry designer, until two years later when
he was tempted to try painting.
His design background gave him skills, technique and even discipline,
but he didn’t truly find his path as a painter, it seems, until he
discovered the North American photographer Edward Curtis. His
influence on Ygartua’s painting will be as great as that of design,
and both together will give form and character to his style and will
even shape his way of seeing and feeling.
The extraordinary technique of this artist is apparent in his
impeccable drawing, his detail and his delicate sense of color. These
artworks are executed with a precise and meticulous realism and
a diligent search for a faithful interpretation, not only of a particular
individual, but of a whole race as reflected in each subject. Such is
the quality of his ‘Indian Heritage’ paintings.
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