Paula MacArthur is a painter & printmaker; she trained at the Royal Academy Schools. In 2024, she won Matthew Burrows' Judge's Choice Award at the Jackson's Art Prize and was a John Moores Painting Prize winner in 1993. She's exhibited around the world; New York, Berlin, Italy, China, Poland and Alaska, and regularly exhibits across the UK. She works from her studio in Rye, East Sussex.
The current focus of Paula’s work is crystals and jewels; they are love songs in colour and light. Solitary, precious stones are captured in the spotlight, displayed as icons which lure us in and quietly invite us to contemplate the multifaceted associations we bring to these treasures.