Paula McArdle

Paula McArdle was born in 1971. Her style has its roots in Naïve art. Naïve art has no past and no future. It captures the “now". Whereas the trained artist cannot ignore the art of his predecessors and contemporaries, naïve artists work as if on a desert island, creating images of the world around them mingled with their imagination, without the barrier of tradition. The art of Paula McArdle springs from a sense of joy and bemusement of the world around her. Sketching wherever she goes, she translates what she sees into her language of imagery, leading us gently into her insight into the curious and sometimes ungainly figures which people her world. Her artwork can be found in galleries and private collections around the world.