Maloney, Paula

Paula was born and raised in the Ottawa area, and is currently living in Barrhaven with her two pups, Coco and Daisy. She’s been drawing from an early age and decided to study Commercial Art at Algonquin college in 1979 shortly before personal computers were common in the home. Everything was done freehand. She started painting with acrylics in 1999 when her sister asked her to illustrate a children’s book she was writing called “Icicles to Miracles”, based on the ice storm of 1998 which hit hard in eastern Ontario and western Quebec. She’s been painting off and on ever since. Other mediums she uses are pen and ink, pencil and coloured pencil.

She currently works in the federal government as a graphic designer. Because she has a love for both fine art and graphic design, she mixes the two by scanning some of her art into the computer, digitally adjusting it and creating note cards, which she prints and sells. She is a lefty, but uses her right hand when doing digital work, thereby mastering the use of both hands to create her art. Torn between two completely different subject matters and mediums, she finds herself doing a lot of folk art with acrylic on the one hand and abstract pen and ink renderings on the other. Happy creating!

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Email: paulamaloney2016@gmail.com