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. He was called up for two years in 1966 as a conscript and served one year overseas in the army. 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 stamps in 1994, which was released in Vienna and New York. 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 intern...

Self taught

1984 to 95 Wildlife Art Society of Australasia: Best Exhibit (x2)

1991 solo exhibition at Melbourne House in London

1992 and 1993 Featured artist at Omell Galleries, London

1993 Best Wildlife exhibit: Camberwell Rotary Art Show

1994 and 1995 exhibition at Koerton Gallery, Wisconsin USA

1994,1995 and 2001, exhibition at Landmarks Gallery, Wisconsin USA

1995 and 1996 Leigh Yawkey Woodsen Birds in Art exhibition, Wisconsin, USA.

1996 and 1997 solo exhibitions Osaka, Japan

1996 and 1998 solo exhibition Raffles Hotel, Singapore

2004 exhibition at Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, Texas USA

2005 - 2018 exhibition at Kevin Hill's Top Ten Artist's, Sydney, NSW

2006 solo exhibition at Art Beatus Gallery, Hong Kong

2008 book launch at Jenny Pihan Fine Art Gallery, Victoria Australia

2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 solo exhibitions at Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland

2009 solo exhibition at Delshan Gallery, Melbourne

2009, 2010, 2012 solo exhibitions at Jenny Pihan Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne

2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 solo exhibitions at Old Post Office, Seymour, VIC

2010, 2012 solo exhibition at Boyd Fine Art Gallery, Camden, NSW

2010 solo exhibition at Mckenzies Gallery, ...