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PAUL YGARTUA
Lives and works in vancouver, canada
www.ygartua.com
artist contact
ygartua@shaw.ca
THe MOneY gAMe, 1985 oiL on canvas 75x50 cm. / 30x40 in. private coLLection
Paul Ygartua, N.D.D., is an excellent artist and designer, but most of 80´s his interpretations of the peoples of the world were a rewarding
all this international artist is an original creator producing remarkable success as evidenced by his North American Native Heritage Series and
work. Ygartua was born in a town near Liverpool, England; his father his monumental murals Native Heritage, Chemainus, BC and the United
Basque from Northern Spain and his mother British. He studied at the Nations Pavilion at Expo´86 in Vancouver, Canada. These murals have
famous Liverpool Art College with John Lennon in the early 60´s and received international acclaim. In his paintings he seeks to interpret the
listened to the Beatles at the Cavern every lunch hour. He has a degree fundamental values of the nomadic peoples of the world and also in his
in Industrial Design and is a qualified gold and silversmith. During the more intimate work to illustrate the workings of the mind and soul. TRENDS