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Artist Profile
Paul Margocsy:
Paul was born in August
1945.As a child he loved to
draw but had no formal training or direction.
After
school he started window dressing at Myer
Melbourne. In 1966 he was called up for two
years as
a conscript and served one year overseas in the
army.
In 1971 he went to England and spent three years
travelling and working. Married in Australia in
1974, he began painting murals for children’s
nurseries. In 1978 he became engrossed in
wildlife
art. After much research into ornithology and
through self-taught efforts and experiments he
started to get the hang of it. A few years later
he
became a member of “The Wildlife Art Society of
Australasia” and the very next year won first
prize
for the best painting.
Since that eventful exhibition many things began
to formulate - Paul was included in a book
launch
in 1990 featuring 70 of the best living
traditional
artists in Australia. He also had a book
published on
his paintings. Australia Post commisioned him in
1991 to do a water bird series of stamps and he
was
subsequently commisioned by the United Nations
to paint a series of endangered species in 1994,
which was released in Vienna.
Paul has had solo exhibitions in London and
Japan, six solo shows in America and two at the
exclusive “Raffles” Hotel in Singapore, making
his
international career blossom. He has an upcoming
solo show in Hong Kong in 2006.
To be chosen to exhibit at the prestigious
“Leigh
Yawkey Woodson Birds In Art Show” in America
(80 selected from over 3500 entries) was a
“feather
in his cap”. Paul was chosen two years running.
Paul was honoured with a fellow membership to
“The Wildlife Art Society of Australasia” for
services to the society and wildlife art.
His love for painting, together with his wife,
son
and daughter make him a truly contented artist.
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