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Creation and interpretation is Paul’s life.
In painting he is at home in all mediums
and prodigious. His styles include Realism,
Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism,
Post Modernism, Surrealism, Abstract
Surrealism and Future Conceptualism, a
revolutionary technique developed and
created by Ygartua. His continuous
study and work on techniques and
painting mediums are apparent
throughout his vast body of work.
Paul Ygartua is an artist whose
versatility is reflected in his work. He
is among those who live elsewhere than
their birthplaces. He was born in 1945 in
Bebington, Cheshire (Liverpool) England.
After graduating from Faculty of Arts
Industrial Design, Liverpool Art College in
1965 he immigrated to Vancouver, Canada.
From then on painting became his whole
existence.
Paul Ygartua is a painter and muralist
with bases in Canada, France, Spain and
England. He has single handily painted
some of the largest public space murals in
Canada and the United States. His most
famous works are his “Heritage Series”
depicting North American Natives and
other ethnic and cultural groups. He is
renowned worldwide for his monumental
murals. “The World United” 100x25
feet / 30,48x7,62 meters being one of his
most notorious, commissioned by the
United Nations for the United Nations
Pavilion at the World Expo 86 Vancouver
and his largest to date “Legends of the
Millennium”, over 9,000 square foot
24x390 feet / 7,31x118,72 meters.
The American website ASKART considers
it probably the largest mural ever painted
by a single artist. His most recent mural in
2013, United in History, commemorating
the history of Denny Island and The
Heiltsuk Nation, Bella Bella – Pauline
Hilistis Waterfall and the Hereditary Chiefs
of the Heiltsuk Nation, Bella Bella dubbed
him The Mural Miracle Maker.
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