biography

Paul Margocsy 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 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 own paintings. Australia Post commissioned him in 1991 to do a water bird series of stamps and he was subsequently commissioned 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 had a successful 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 has been honored with a fellow membership to “The Wildlife Art Society of Australasia” for services to the society and wildlife art.

His love of painting, with that of his wife, son and daughter make him a truly contented artist.