Paula Borsetti

Paula Borsetti creates abstract paintings that are a story of her life, reflecting her love of family, friends and the natural environment of New England. Working primarily in acrylic, she borrows colors, patterns, textures, forms and movement to create layered paintings meant to evoke personal moments and narrative.
Paula’s training began by working from the landscape. She fell in love with painting then and that continued through her formal education. Being an art educator fueled her desire to nurture and learn. She now maintains a full time studio practice and continues showing locally, nationally and online.
Paula’s Coastal series is influenced by the natural environment of New England where she has always lived. She soaks in colors, sounds,textures, patterns, shapes and forms that she rearranges in her studio to recreate the essence of that moment.
Her PALS series is a body of work inspired by the battle her friend's son recently lost against ALS. Diagnosed at 25 he fought valiantly for 9 ½ years. For this series she states “I am intrigued by words. I am currently using words describing Bobby’s experience with ALS as layers submerged in the paintings. I am rolling these thoughts and words around in paint and letting them l...

M. Ed - Endicott College, Beverly, MA.
BFA - Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA.

2024
Love - Pop Up Exhibit - Cove Gallery Rocky Neck
Rocky Neck Now - Members exhibit
Light Space Time All Women - juried group show
2023
43 Annual Faber Birren Color Show - juried Group Show
What Remains -Visionary Art Collective - Juried Group Show NYC
Vivid Vibrations - Visionary Projects x The Yard, NYC, juried group show
Unexpected 22 - Experimental Art Group juried group show
Exhibition 4 - North Shore Arts Association - juried group show
Simply Placed - Solo show
Gulu Gulu Cafe - Solo show
Alchemy + Art - Small Works Show - juried group show
Newburyport Art Association - Journeying Well - juried group show
North Shore Arts Association - New England 2023, Regional Juried Exhibit
Trustees of Reservations - Annual Juried group show
Las Laguna Art Gallery - Storytellers group show
Las Laguna Art Gallery - Over 50 group show
Alchemy + Art - Embracing Nature - juried group show
North Shore Arts Association - Exhibition One
Beverly ArtsFest Community Art Show
Newburyport Regional Juried Group Show
See/Me - juried group show NYC
Marblehead Arts Association - Transitions - National Juried Show
Cove Gallery - Call and Response - juried group show
Circle Foundation for the Arts - Finalist Miami Show
Abstract Zone - online group show
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