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Paul Ygartua

Lives and works in Vancouver, Canada
https://www.ygartua.com/ | https://www.ygartuaoriginals.com/

Creation and interpretation is Paul’s life. In painting he is and the United States. His most famous works are his
at home in all mediums and prodigious. His styles include “Heritage Series” depicting North American Natives
Realism, Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Post and other ethnic and cultural groups. He is renowned

Modernism, Surrealism, Abstract Surrealism and Future worldwide for his monumental murals. “The World United
Conceptualism, a revolutionary technique developed and ” (100ftx25ft/3,048cmx762cm) being one of his most
created by Ygartua. His continuous study and work on notorious, commissioned by the United Nations for the
techniques and painting mediums are apparent throughout United Nations Pavilion at the World Expo 86 Vancouver
his vast body of work. Paul Ygartua is an artist whose and his largest to date “Legends of the Millennium”,

versatility is reflected in his work. He is among those over 9,000 square foot (24ftx390ft/731cmx11,872cm).
who live elsewhere than their birthplaces. He was born The American website ASKART considers it probably the
in 1945 in Bebington, Cheshire (Liverpool) England. After largest mural ever painted by a single artist. His most

graduating from Faculty of Arts Industrial Design, Liverpool recent mural in 2013, United in History, commemorating
Art College in 1965 he immigrated to Vancouver, Canada. the history of Denny Island and The Heiltsuk Nation, Bella
From then on painting became his whole existence. Bella – Pauline Hilistis Waterfall and the Hereditary Chiefs
Paul Ygartua is a painter and muralist with bases in of the Heiltsuk Nation, Bella Bella dubbed him The Mural
Canada, France, Spain and England. He has single handily Miracle Maker. Excerpt

painted some of the largest public space murals in Canada
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